Holy Week Thoughts

Most churches will have special services this week to recount the events of the first Holy week, to commemorate the Last Supper, to honor our Lord’s agony in Gethsemane, His betrayal and arrest and His suffering and death on the Cross to redeem us.

Let the meaning of this week sink in to your soul in a deeper way than ever before. Ask the Holy Spirit to teach you the amazing significance of this event in history. Wrap your mind and heart around the fact that Jesus lived a sinless life, taught profound lessons in love, showed us God’s character, and voluntarily died to save you and me. We can’t stand in God’s presence in eternity without Christ’s blood covering our sins.

Here’s what scripture says about the effect of Jesus sacrificial death for those who are alive in Christ:

“God has forgiven you all your sins: Christ utterly wiped out the damning evidence of broken laws and commandments which always hung over our heads, and has completely annulled it by nailing it over His own head on the Cross. And then, having disarmed all the powers ranged against us, He exposed them – shattered, empty, and defeated—in His final glorious triumphant act!” Col. 2:13b-15

            On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross,

            the emblem of suffering and shame,

            and I love the old cross where the dearest and best

            for a world of lost sinners was slain.

            So I’ll cherish the old rugged cross,

            till my trophies at last I lay down;

            I will cling to the old rugged cross

            and exchange it some day for a crown.”

In Christ,

Dottie