This is the most holy week of the Christian calendar. 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.
And three days later his resurrection!
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, God in the flesh, the son of God, lived a sinless life,
taught profound lessons in love, showed us God's unchanging character, and
voluntarily died to save you and me. And he rose again. He's alive!
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 on those who are in Christ:
God has forgiven you all your sins: Christ has 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! Colossians 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
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