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Most of us would rather keep our doubts quiet than be caught not having it all figured out—especially around people who assume we do. Nicodemus, one of the most respected religious teachers of his day, came to Jesus under cover of night with exactly that tension, and in John 3 Jesus meets him there, in the dark, unfinished.
The following study questions are AI generated and may contain errors.
Nicodemus came to Jesus “by night” out of fear of what others would think. What are modern equivalents of spiritual “darkness” or hiding that keep people from openly pursuing faith or asking difficult questions?
The sermon contrasts the “clean” American egg (sanitized but potentially contaminated inside) with the “dirty” European egg (unclean outside but safer inside). How does this illustration apply to how we present ourselves spiritually—and what does Jesus actually care about?
Nicodemus moves from secret nighttime inquiry (John 3), to public defense of Jesus before the Pharisees (John 7), to costly identification with the crucified Christ (John 19). Which stage of his journey feels most familiar to you right now, and what do you think moved him from one stage to the next?
The sermon challenges the idea that waiting until you “have it all figured out” is safer—using both Nicodemus and the unfinished Sagrada Familia as examples. Where in your own life are you tempted to delay following Jesus because things don’t feel finished or polished enough?
The preacher warns that the “safe middle ground” of partial allegiance can leave us lonely and joyless. Whether your story feels tidy or messy, the sermon insists that real safety comes only through Jesus “cooking” out impurities—what specific area of darkness will you invite His light and purifying work into this week?
This transcript has been automatically generated and may contain errors.
Well, snakes can crawl around for lots of different reasons. I’m told that snakes enjoy eggs, and so they could crawl around looking for some eggs, I suppose. Maybe if you had a farm with a few chickens and you had some eggs out there, they might try to get to those. And if that were the case right now, they might basically eat a house payment, right? Something like that. Because we all know how eggs have gone up. It’s kind of funny, all this discussion about eggs and bird flu and everything else with that has caused us to spend a lot of time talking about something that we just kind of take for granted, right? A dozen eggs. Just a very basic thing, something that most of us have around. And thankfully so.
But have you ever thought about how we get those eggs, and how we might get them that’s different from other countries? So one thing that happened over the past century or so, we industrialized our food system. So you have thousands of chickens laying eggs in a building, and if you have thousands of chickens laying eggs in a building, those eggs may not be exactly as clean and pleasant looking initially as they would be at a little farm. So they tried to figure out a solution to that.
What they came up with was that they could create this set of machines that would spray water and then soap and then a highly chlorinated water upon the eggs, takes all the dirt and debris off of the eggs, and allows us to enjoy that nice, bright, white egg that most of us expect to see at the store. Now, there’s one problem with those eggs, and it leads to why if you travel to a different country, say you go to Europe, you may notice people having their eggs, their eggs are just sitting on the counter. Or maybe you thought about, well, what did they do in the olden days before they had refrigeration? How did they manage it?
Well, if you don’t treat those eggs with cleansing materials, water, solution, you just have the natural egg. It has what’s called the cuticle on it that keeps the egg locked inside and the bacteria locked outside. But in that pursuit to create a clean egg, it removes the cuticle. And whatever’s on the outside can actually get inside the egg.
It’s kind of interesting because if you think about it, that egg looks so much cleaner. And on the outside, I guess technically it is cleaner than it was. But the inside egg, the part we’re actually going to eat, may be less clean. It may have more contamination than if we’d leave it alone. It’s one of the reasons why they say it’s much more dangerous, say, nowadays to eat raw cookie dough or make your own mayonnaise or all those sorts of things than it was, say, 50 or 100 years ago. Because back then, if, say, you went to the local farm and bought eggs, they weren’t doing this and the eggs were safer.
But the other thing that struck me on this, it’s still not a great idea to eat raw eggs even if you go and get farm fresh eggs, because it could still be the case that there’s pathogens on it, things that will make us sick and will make us regret ever having met an egg. And so what do we do? We cook things, right? We cook them. And when you cook things, it kills that stuff.
And so if you have that nice, clean, sanitized American egg on the one side, and you have the European, not so clean on the outside but cleaner on the inside egg, well, the route to getting to where it’s actually ideal to eat may look a little different. At some points, one might look more admirable than the other. But really, the end goal is still the same, to cook that egg, make it safe, and allow it to nourish it.
When we think about redeemed snakes, we have stories of redeemed snakes here that we’re going to be looking at over the next few weeks. We’re going to be looking at how God takes people through different paths of life experience and brings them to himself. And last week on Easter, we looked at the story of Nicodemus in part, John 3. We looked at 14 through 16 and thought about what that famous passage is really saying before we get to the part that everyone holds up the sign at sporting events, about how we look to Jesus as he’s lifted up.
But what’s going on in the broader passage? Because here we have a man, Nicodemus, who comes and speaks to Jesus in the dead of night. He’s a leading teacher in the land, someone of note, a religious figure, right? And he belongs to the Pharisees. He belongs to the enemies, right? The bad guys, the ones who are always coming after Jesus, always questioning him, always trying to catch him, the ones who collaborate and ultimately hand him over to the Romans. He’s one of those guys. He’s kind of a dirty egg. But as we’re going to see, that’s not the fullness of his story. That’s not the fullness of your story or my story either when we’re that dirty egg.
So let’s pray that God would help us to understand those places of failure, those places of accumulated dirt from sin, and how he can overcome that. Will you join me in prayer?
Father, we do pray that you would help us as we come to your word to better understand how you provide redemption and how you continue to work in our lives after you save us. Wherever we are today, Lord, would you help us to understand that your grace is sufficient to overcome our own foibles. We pray this in Jesus’ precious name, amen.
Well, let’s get the scene, shall we? This is the beginning of John 3:
Now, there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. And this man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”
God is about to bring light into Nicodemus’ darkness, and he brings light into our darkness. That’s what God does over and over again. He’s in the business of lighting up the darkness.
And when you think about Nicodemus here, there’s both a physical and symbolic darkness, because why would you go at night? People have wrestled with this. It’s not told explicitly, but we can make a pretty good guess that Nicodemus wasn’t really anxious to say to the whole world, “Hey, I want to know what Jesus has to say.”
If you are supposed to know what you’re doing in a particular area, maybe you’ve been working a certain job for a while, and you’re supposed to be someone with knowledge, you don’t really want to be caught holding the “Four Dummies” book, right? Unless you’ve written it. If I take my car into the shop and behind the counter the mechanic has his feet up on the desk and he has “Auto Repair for Dummies” open, I’m not leaving my car there.
And you can kind of imagine that Nicodemus, he knows there’s something to what’s going on with Jesus. But there’s also that concern, are people going to think I’m holding up the “Four Dummies” book? Because this is some upstart preacher. If I’m an established teacher, why would I be going to him? And the answer is, I believe the Spirit is nudging Nicodemus, but he doesn’t necessarily want everyone to know.
There’s lots of speculation on all of Nicodemus’ background. It’s thought that his full name may have been Nicodemus Ben-Gurion, and if that’s indeed the case, we have some extra-biblical materials talking about him. It appears that he was, in fact, a good egg. He was someone who had compassion for people, someone who took out a loan at one point in his life to get wells to support people who couldn’t, because he had the name that he could back it. It appears that time and again he was a pretty good guy.
There’s even stories that this particular Nicodemus did some miracles. So, we can’t say definitively that this is the same Nicodemus, but a lot of people think that it is, so it seems like here’s someone, here’s a starting point, he does seem to have an earnest desire to understand whom Jesus is. Who is this Nazarene teacher upstart that’s doing miracles and doing this stuff?
But even when we mean well, if we’re in a position like that, we have a lot to lose. And so I think as Nicodemus comes in in the darkness of night, what Nicodemus is saying is, I do want to hear what God has to say. And I think there might be something to this, but I also have to look out for my career. I have to look out for my career. I need to be cautious. But he’d seen too much to ignore completely.
John 2, verse 23, says, “Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover feast, many believed in his name,” that’s Jesus, not Nicodemus there, “believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing.”
And it’s thought that quite possibly Nicodemus is one of those who at least to some degree at that point believes. He sees the miracles. He’s biblically literate enough to know that God isn’t going to be doing that through someone who doesn’t have a spirit.
And even when he speaks in a way that doesn’t quite sound like how Nicodemus would phrase things, it does seem like it might actually fit with what scripture says.
This is a starting point for Nicodemus. He comes, and we have indication in John 3 that he comes with this sort of attitude because Jesus’ approach to him is very different from oftentimes the approach he has with the Pharisees. And we see this over and over again in Jesus’ life. He can read hearts; we can’t, but he can, and so when someone comes earnestly, he might come down hard on them if they need to have some part of their hard heart chipped away. He might do that, and he does push hard at Nicodemus at certain points, but what he doesn’t do is just attack him.
When the Pharisees are coming and they’re just looking for a trap, Jesus will play the game right back at them. He’ll ask a question they can’t answer, he’ll call them a brood of vipers, non-redeemed snakes, clearly. With Nicodemus, he instructs. And I believe that’s very illustrative of what Jesus is seeing in Nicodemus.
Nicodemus doesn’t have it all right, doesn’t have a lot of it right, but Nicodemus is someone who wants to know. Nicodemus comes in the dark, he’s hiding, he has a lot to lose, he doesn’t want to expose himself. And so then John loves using light and dark imagery, so I think he wants us to dwell on the setting because Nicodemus isn’t just coming by cover of night for his own benefit reputationally. Nicodemus is also coming by cover of night and he’s in spiritual night still.
And there’s a question, right? Is he going to believe or not? That’s the question if we were following Nicodemus. There’s no record that someone else goes in with Nicodemus. But if he had an assistant there that was going to record the teacher’s writings and comes in and he starts to hear what Nicodemus is saying, the question is, well, is Nicodemus going to accept this and say, “Hmm, maybe there’s something to this,” or not? Is Nicodemus going to see the flaw in Jesus finally?
You sit down with someone who has these newfangled ideas and you start to talk it over and you say, wait a second this guy’s just crazy. What is it that Nicodemus is going to do?
But the first thing Nicodemus does, and the important step that each and every one of us needs to take at some point in life, is say, “God, I want you to shine your light in my darkness. I want you to actually come in and show your light where I know that I’m in the darkness.” And Nicodemus does that. It doesn’t mean he walks in the door and he’s already given his life to Jesus and he’s already a believer and he’s just going to seminary now under Jesus. He’s not doing that, right? He doesn’t quite know, but he knows he wants to know.
If you’re there tonight that’s okay. I think sometimes we’re embarrassed at being at that point. Like Nicodemus, we don’t want people to know if we don’t have it all down, right? I mean, especially if you’ve been in church for a while, maybe your whole life, and you finally say, “I don’t know what I believe and I want to know but I don’t know.” It’s kind of embarrassing, isn’t it? Well, then people won’t think I’m a pillar of the church anymore.
But I’ve known people who have had that testimony. I can think of two right now that said for 60, 70 years of their lives they were in the church but didn’t believe. Two wonderful men in particular that come to mind that after they finally saw that and admitted it and said, “I don’t care if it’s embarrassing, I don’t care if it’s going to demean me, I just want to follow Jesus.” God worked powerfully through that.
And it’s saying, “I care more about knowing Jesus than I care about what people think I know about Jesus.” Because if you have a lot of head knowledge, Nicodemus had a lot of head knowledge and he had a lot of head knowledge about the Messiah, but not only did he actually have to hear how Jesus applied that and understand it intellectually, he had to say, “I want to be born again. I do want to be one who experiences God’s light. I’m tired of being in the darkness.”
I think back to Palm Sunday two weeks ago when we had our palm branches and we laid them down and we talked about directing our palm branches in our worship. Are we directing it in the most helpful direction or not? The most spiritually edifying direction or not? And you think about all those people on Palm Sunday, they weren’t hiding by cover of darkness; they were coming out, they were praising God and hailing Jesus coming into Jerusalem. But they weren’t actually open to Jesus confronting them spiritually.
And so while we might look at Nicodemus and say, “Why couldn’t you just be out in the open and be really willing to say, I don’t know everything but I want to know from Jesus,” what we need to do is maybe give him a little credit. He wasn’t there yet, but God honored where he was. He said, “I would rather have someone come in the darkness of night still ashamed of not knowing, come in and want to know me than wave palm branches and do all the pomp and circumstance but walk away and not know me.”
Does anyone know that next year, 2026, there’s going to be a new tallest church in the world? It’s the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. Here it is right now, a pretty spectacular building, massive, massive building. Right now it has 12 steeples or pillar structures already constructed. It’s going to ultimately, I believe, have I think it’s 17 or 19, but one’s for the disciples, one representing Mary, and then the tallest of all representing Jesus. And that’s the one that’s going to be completed next year.
Well, that’s interesting, right? But here’s something you may not know. This is that same church in 1905, and that same church in 1905 had already been under construction for about two decades. Here it is, I believe that was 1930, and you can see a shell of a church being built there. But the remarkable thing about this church? Someone had a vision. He had gone to the Vatican, and maybe you were watching the news over the weekend and you see all the ceremony at the Vatican for Pope Francis’ funeral, and you think, “Wow, look at those majestic huge cathedrals and buildings and statuary and so on.”
He went to the Vatican and he saw that and he wanted to bring something even more spectacular home to Barcelona. And so in the 1880s he decided to privately raise the money to build the Sagrada Familia. They were going to build this church and then he got an architect. The architect wasn’t thinking grand enough, so he got a different architect — the architect who actually designed it — and they started building and he said, “It’s not about getting it done quickly.”
Well, he succeeded on both ends. It was not done quickly because it will be mostly done next year, and they think it will be finished about a decade later. But then I was curious, well, when did they actually get to use it? And thankfully, they didn’t wait until it was all cleaned up and nice looking. They had their first service, believed in 1885. So whatever little bit of it was there in 1885, they had a service.
Now they got to the halfway point in 2010, and using new technology and so on, they’ve been able to accelerate, obviously, if we’re talking about being finished 16 or so years later. But it took over 100 years to get to the halfway point, and it was only in 2010 when they hit that halfway point that they’re actually able to commission the main nave and have a proper service in the part that was actually meant to be where the services take place.
So we have a building project. Someday let’s not make this the model of how we do it except for one part: they didn’t wait until it was perfect. And I kind of imagine the guy with the vision may have even been a little embarrassed at times when people walked in and said, “Oh, nice pillar you have there that we’re meeting in,” right? I mean, no, no, it’s going to be really grand someday, but they used it for the purpose even before it was finished.
Nicodemus isn’t finished here. He doesn’t have it all polished up. He’s not a 20-year follower of Jesus the first time he actually bothers to encounter Jesus. He comes, and yes, he’s embarrassed in it, yes, he’s in the middle of the night, but he says, “I know it’s not done yet. My life’s not done. It’s not constructed yet, but I want to know.”
I do believe that’s where Jesus challenges each of us because we have that tendency to say, “Well, once I have it all straight, once I have it all polished up, then I’ll actually encounter the living God.”
But for as much as we might criticize Nicodemus for going in the cover of night, he’s actually showing what we should do. It’d be so much better to come in at night than not to come, just like it says in the old hymn, “Come ye sinners, wait until you’re ready, you’ll never come at all.” That’s true.
Why don’t we come? Because we feel insecure. But God brings safety in our insecurity. And thankfully, John 3 isn’t the end of the story for Nicodemus. Take a look at John 7 later on.
Pharisees are all in an uproar over Jesus and wanting to figure out what they can do to end this crazy man’s ministry. It says, “Nicodemus, who had gone to him before and who was one of them, said to them, ‘Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?’”
What did they reply to him? They replied, “Are you from Galilee too? Search and see that no prophet arises from Galilee.”
Well, this isn’t exactly a rousing testimony, right? Nicodemus doesn’t say, “Quit talking this way. He’s my Lord and my Savior,” and “Do I resent you saying this?” And from what he says, we don’t really know exactly where Nicodemus falls still. What we do know is he’s pondering what Jesus has said.
And as they’re looking for the way to get Jesus, what Nicodemus is saying is, in his head at least, not saying this out loud, “There’s something about that man. I’ve encountered him at night and there’s something about him. I saw the miracles, and then I encountered him, he told me things that perplexed me, but I also think maybe there’s something to that. I think there’s maybe a step towards the light in him.”
And I might not be ready to say that. I’m certainly not going to stand by entirely idly. So we see a progression. Again, this is why I’m glad they went ahead and used that church. They didn’t just wait until it was done.
Because even imagine if they waited in 2010, how many people that have worshipped God in that church would not have ever had the opportunity if they waited until 2026? All kinds of them. But they went ahead. They opened that church even while it’s still being built, and they’ve continued to build. They’re going to finish the vision. They’re going to get the life of the church, as it were, in order, but they weren’t going to wait until it’s all right before they do something.
And here Nicodemus still maybe doesn’t have everything down, but he’s also not going to sit by idly. And something’s happened. Nicodemus isn’t a fool. Nicodemus knows that if it’s worth going in the cover of night to go see Jesus, to ask him questions, then speaking up to your peers saying, “Wait, we need to actually follow our law and how we treat him. We can’t treat him wrongly,” it’s not going to go over well.
What’s he have on you, Nicodemus? Look at that again: they replied, “Are you from Galilee too?” He doesn’t have to say he follows Jesus, he doesn’t have to say he’s a fan of Jesus, he doesn’t have to say he’s given his life to Jesus. He just has to say, “Let’s actually follow the law and do what’s just rather than what we just want to do.” And they already start saying, “You must be compromised because why would you defend him? He’s a threat.”
Somewhere in the space between John 3 and John 7, what happens in Nicodemus’ life? He doesn’t have it all solved, but he’s turning to Jesus. He’s starting to trust a little bit more in Jesus, clearly, and he says, “I can go far enough at least. I can speak up even though I know it’s going to be difficult.”
And here’s something that we need to be upfront as a church with when we tell people to follow Jesus: we need to be upfront that if you actually follow Jesus the way that he calls you to follow him, it’s going to be difficult, and people are going to ask questions. It’s going to be so much easier if we compromise. So much easier if we don’t always stand for the things that God stands for.
But here’s the other thing: if you’re kind of in that spot right now where you believe enough that you’re going to speak up, you’re not going to take it when people are speaking insultingly of Jesus, but you haven’t actually trusted in him fully, it’s an awful middle ground.
Nicodemus is in an awful place right here because on the one hand now his compatriots view him as a traitor, and yet he presumably doesn’t completely know Jesus yet either.
But it is instructive to know this because what we know is that that means Nicodemus understands exactly what he’s doing. When we fast forward to the crucifixion, John 19, verse 39, Nicodemus also — this is the last time we encounter Nicodemus in the Bible — Nicodemus also, who had earlier come to Jesus by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes about 75 pounds in weight. We’re told he goes with Arimathea to get the body of Jesus.
And it’s a really funny opportunity to decide to be a little bit more public about your faith. The man that you’re trusting in, you’re collecting his body. And Nicodemus says, “I know if I simply said, ‘Hey guys, we have a law and it says that even if we don’t like the guy, we need to do things a certain way,’ I know if I just speak up like that, people question me and wonder if I’m one of his. What are they going to think when I show up with 75 pounds of material for burying the man and giving him a burial fit for a king? What are they going to think then?”
Nicodemus knows exactly. And so while we don’t get any spoken words from Nicodemus in his last appearance in scripture, we see in his life at this point he’s gotten it. Because there’s no good reason to do this unless you’ve gotten it. And maybe even Nicodemus has gotten it in a way the disciples haven’t yet because while many of them are trying to sort out what to do and they fled as Jesus went to the cross, Nicodemus says, “I’m going to come and stand and be identified with him when he’s gone to the cross already.”
And there’s no resurrection yet. And if you’re looking for a powerful testimony of someone who actually heard and experienced and believed, I believe we see that in Nicodemus. Because here’s a man who says, “I don’t even have to see the resurrection first to know that this is worthwhile. He’s my king.”
So we see a transformation of a life. And yes, his shell, it was soiled and dirty, and it takes a long time. It’s not that instant process of running it through a machine and all the dirt comes pouring off as the chemicals go on. It’s not that.
As he wrestles with Jesus he comes to him, and Jesus is faithful.
And I was thinking about it as I was reading about the history of Nicodemus and the stories that may be about the same man, including the stories of him doing miracles. And I wondered — again, we can’t make that firm connection, but it sort of seems like to me that maybe as we read in Acts about the different disciples of Jesus going and doing miracles, and when we read about Nicodemus doing miracles, the reason that we read about that is because he went and he was part of that early church movement doing marvelous signs and wonders, testifying to his God.
I don’t think that’s really much of a stretch. But without even the stretch we can see this: he testifies and he chooses to no longer play it safe because now he’s encountered Jesus. And he’s seen that yes, Jesus does bring light into the darkness and yes, Jesus does bring security into the insecurity. Because at this point it doesn’t matter to him.
Before he had to be cautious because people might think he was a collaborator with Jesus, but now he says, “I don’t care that both the Romans and the Jews hate Jesus. I don’t care if essentially everybody hates Jesus. I’m willing to go give him a burial of honor, of royalty, because I know who he really is.”
I don’t know if it’s dangerous if we just play it safe.
Anyone watching the Cardinals lately? Listening to the Cardinals games? And you kind of… ugh… they’re going to bring out that man who can’t pitch again? Why? We can’t bring out our closer Ryan Helsley because if we get to the 19th inning, we might need him. I’m only exaggerating just the slightest bit because that’s what they’ve done over and over again. They save the players that actually can play because they don’t want to take out a player who can’t because maybe we’ll keep playing or maybe we’ll need him tomorrow. And so they keep losing. And they have one of the worst records they’ve ever had, won two games on the road this year so far. We’re at the end of April. It’s ugly.
But in the moment, safe kind of looks wise, right? Because it looks reckless to go and put out, say, your closer when you don’t know if there’s going to be multiple extra innings. Maybe no one will score and you need a pitcher two innings from now. You don’t know. And so it seems safe just in isolation. It seems pretty good. Sort of like cleaning that egg in isolation; if you don’t know that it’s taking off the protective coating and actually maybe contaminating the insides, it seems great because all that stuff on the outside is taken off, all that filth.
And here’s what we know: the clean eggs aren’t necessarily safe. And the clean story isn’t necessarily safe if you’re living an early Nicodemus type life and you’re holding back because you don’t want people to know that you don’t have everything in order. It’s not necessarily as safe as it seems.
And Christian, if you have believed but you’re still kind of in that middle ground and not fully experiencing it because you’re not yet trusting that God not only brings light into your darkness but also brings security into your insecurity, it’s not necessarily safe either. I’m not saying you can lose your salvation, but I’m saying you can experience a lot less of the joy of salvation.
Whether you have that dirty egg or that clean egg, it comes down to the fact that you need to cook the egg. And what comes down for us, whether we have that nice tidy clean story and even if we don’t believe everyone thinks we must be a Christian because it looks so good, or if we have that dirty filthy story and people wonder if we could ever be a Christian because it looks so bad, what determines whether we’re safe or not is Jesus’ cooking, his cleansing, his process.
That’s my question for us tonight: where can I take a step this week? Wherever we are, whether we’re a believer already or not, where can I take a step this week from safe darkness to light? Where can I say, “This is an area I don’t have straight in my life. It’s not worked out yet, and God I want you to peer into this.” And if you haven’t believed, again, maybe it’s just I need to get straight the idea of whether I believe in Jesus or not and what that means and how that works.
But if you do believe, it’s also an invitation to say, “I’m not good at loving my neighbor yet. I’m not good at working with integrity yet. I’m not good at caring for the poor yet. I’m not good at this. I’m not good at that. And God, I want you to shine your light into this place.”
And it won’t necessarily feel safe, just like picking up that filthy egg doesn’t feel particularly safe compared to our sanitized ones. But safety isn’t in the appearance, it’s in Jesus.
Now’s always the right time for cooking. Now’s always the right time to come into Jesus’ kitchen and have him cook out the impurities in our lives and to grow just like we see with Nicodemus, to not just stay put but to say, “Keep shining light, grow me. Let my life be a life where people can check in at me at different points, like we can check in on Nicodemus.”
And what do we see? We see a movement towards the Savior. God, make my life like that, because the clear thing with every redeemed snake, everyone who starts out in the darkness, everyone who’s completely enmeshed in sin, everyone who’s all of us, is that as we turn to Jesus, he takes our flaws and he turns them to faith. He takes us as snakes and he brings us into the light.
Let’s pray that he’d do that all the more this week.
Father, thank you for your goodness and your love. And we do pray that you would bring us more and more into your light, whatever areas, whether it’s our entire life or part of it, that we’re still protecting that darkness because it feels safe. Would you help us to see that we need your light? And then as we realize the ways that seeking that light feels unsafe, would you help us to see how much safer it is to come into your light than to stay in the darkness?
Would you cook away the sin? Would you purify us? Would you draw us to yourself? We pray in Jesus’ precious name, amen.
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