Easter Sunday is 13 days away! This year I want to
experience the holy week and the gospel in a new way! I want to walk with Jesus
in his journey on earth. I want to open my heart to the words and love of
Christ as he shared with us when he walked this earth in human form. I want to
feel what the disciples felt. Let us begin this journey with Jesus to the cross
and beyond!
As the suffering and crucifixion approaches I hope my heart
will be with Jesus. Please Lord use this time to open my heart to experience and
understand your amazing gift of grace to us.
As we remember Jesus dying for our sins I pray my heart
would break this coming Good Friday as we remember Jesus suffering and death on
a cross. He died bearing our sins, paying the price, so that we might have life
in him. Between the cross and the resurrection I pray my heart would break and
feel the loss. Yet I pray God would use this to reveal what true hope is in his
promise.
Easter - God did raise Jesus from the dead victoriously on
the third day! Our God is victorious over death and the devil!
In this journey with Jesus I will be studying John 1-21 and sharing here. I
am also fortunate enough to be in the Holy week dramas at my church Evergreen
Lutheran. I will be playing the part of Peter. Another exciting event in this
journey with Jesus is that I am going to see “The Thorn” passion play. I will
be going with my friend Assylbek who came last year and was amazed. This year
he is brining more friends and guess what? Assylbek and his friends are not
Jesus followers (yet).
I trust that your journey
to Easter will be blessed, open your heart to him and he will fill you with
love and hope!
Only 6 days left until Easter Day! Palm Sunday we remembered the triumphant entry of Jesus in Jerusalem. There is so much yet to come. From this joy we must descend down to the grave with our Savior and then victoriously into new life. For now let us walk the final days of Jesus with his disciples in Jerusalem starting in John 12.
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