Tag: Devotional Thoughts
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Love in Gethsemane
“Being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground” (Luke 22:44). Places are important to us. Like our homes, however humble but filled with love. Like our churches, whatever their styles but filled with love. Even more so with the places of the passion. Those spots…
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Our King Enters Knowing All
As they approached Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, on the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples and told them, “Go into the village ahead of you. As soon as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it here.…
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Keep Your Eyes on the Goal
“I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the…
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The Seven Words of Jesus
In the gospels, we find that Jesus spoke seven different times while suffering on the cross on Good Friday. He may have said more than what we have in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, but the Holy Spirit decided in his infinite wisdom that he wanted these particular statements to be written down, preserved, and…
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The Seventh Word: Trust
This post is part of The Seven Words of Jesus series. “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” (Luke 23:46). Not even a few hours ago, the dying man had cried out with a loud voice, “‘Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?’ which means, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’” (Mark 15:34). God…
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The Sixth Word: Victory
This post is part of The Seven Words of Jesus series. “It is finished!” (John 19:30). This, the culmination of the ages. This, the fulfillment of the first gospel promise heard by Adam and Eve in a once-perfect garden. This, the completion of our Savior’s 33 years of living perfectly in our place and dying…
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The Fifth Word: Suffering
This post is part of The Seven Words of Jesus series. “I thirst” (John 19:28). The One who promised springs of living water to those who would drink from him and never thirst again was now parched. But thirst wasn’t why Jesus spoke. He wasn’t complaining about his physical discomfort or unimaginable pain from his…
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The Fourth Word: Anguish
This post is part of The Seven Words of Jesus series. “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46). The psalms were our Savior’s prayer book and hymnal. He sang and prayed through them his whole life. He knew that everything in them testified about him and what he came to do.…