Dear Friends in Christ,

Today is the Fourth Sunday of Lent and it is also called Laetare Sunday, a Sunday of joy in the middle of our Lenten journey. It is a Sunday when we take a break from Lent to see how far we have gone in the season of Lent and encourage ourselves that the journey to Easter is not too far anymore. In all three readings of today we are meant to understand that God sees differently than we do, and Jesus comes to open our eyes to see the things we cannot see.

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God satisfies the deepest longing of the human heart from thirsting to satisfaction, trust and salvation.

On this third Sunday of Lent, three readings are beautifully connected. They all revolve around one powerful theme: thirst — physical thirst, spiritual thirst, and the thirst for salvation.

But deeper still, they reveal this truth: that God meets us in our dryness and brokenness, not to condemn us, but to give us living water.

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This Sunday’s readings invite us on a journey — a journey of trust, transformation, and courage.

In Genesis 12:1–4, God tells Abram, “Go from your country… to the land that I will show you.” Abram makes this journey of over a thousand miles from Ur to Canaan without a map or details; he is given only a promise, and he sets out. That is faith.

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