Easter's still a month away but I left my usual reading plan at home by accident, so today I went to spu.edu/lectio to see what they were going through over there.
Turns out that they're already on Mark 15, and so I decided to check it out and see what God might have to say to me through it.
Mark 15, which is the account of Jesus being crucified, is one of those passages that we usually read closer to Easter. It was a good reminder to me today, though, of what we're spending Lent prepping for: Jesus' act of love and grace for us done on the cross.
In a sense, Lent helps us to make the connection between suffering and love. When you love someone, you're not only willing, but joyful to suffer on their behalf, which is exactly what Jesus did for us.
God, thank you that you love us so deeply that no amount of suffering was too much for you to bear on our behalf. Let me gladly take on the suffering of others that my heart might be transformed to be more and more like your Son's, and so that this world may come more and more under the power of your Kingdom.
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