My Vision of Your Compassion- Lent 38, 2020

Prayer Focus: Humility and Compassion Capped Jesus’ Life

Lord Jesus, Your Word tells us “It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.” It was Your deep love for the Father, Your deep love for us, Your compassion upon our helpless state of sin and impending justice that kept You faithful to the end. There is no way we could ever repay You. All I can do is ask for Your forgiveness and Your mercy…Your compassion…upon me, a sinner. I praise You that Your death on the Cross accomplished a paid-in-full upon my sin and that I don’t have to beg for mercy though by all rights I should. Your compassion is matchless. Remembering that among Your dying words, they were spoken for forgiveness because we didn’t know what we were doing. Spoken for Your mother Mary and the beloved disciple John of ongoing relationship, and more, giving an admitted sinner reassurance of paradise with You. “Marvelous grace of our loving Lord, Grace that exceeds our sin and our guilt! Yonder on Calvary’s mount outpoured. There where the blood of the Lamb was spilled. Grace, grace, God’s grace, Grace that will pardon and cleanse within; Grace, grace, God’s grace, Grace that is greater than all our sin!” My soul wells up with Hallelujahs…Receive my adoration, Lord Jesus. You are worthy! Amen.

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Lent 2013 looked at The Letter to the Romans: Paul’s Masterpiece to reclaim foundations of our Christian heritage and began February 13, 2013.
A very special and ever popular offering was Lent 2014’s Be Still and Know that I AM God which can be obtained through the archives beginning in March 2014.
Lent 2015 began on February 18, 2015 with a series entitled With Christ in the Upper Room: Final Preparations. We explored what is often called “The Upper Room Discourse” found in John chapters 13-17.
ReKindle, the Lent 2016 series, began on February 10, 2016 and encouraged us to rekindle our spiritual lives.
Light: There’s Nothing Like It was the 2017 Lent series and explored this metaphor often used to portray Christ. It is archived beginning March 1, 2017.
Lent 2018, we explored the questions of Pi and Chi (the Greek letter beginning the word Christos, which means Christ, Messiah, the Anointed One). We asked and answered the questions “Why?” from the movie Life of Pi as we discovered the uniqueness of Jesus Christ in a world of many faiths.
Lent 2019 gave us a deeper window into Easter “More to the Easter Story” since we miss so much when we rely only on a superficial understanding of the work of Christ. These devotionals are archived beginning March 6, 2019.