Word of the Week: Passion
I’m thinking about passion this morning: the “Passion of the Christ.” Not the movie (don’t necessarily recommend watching that). Once was enough - it was brutal and graphic. I’m not saying you are doing something wrong by watching it; I just have no plans to watch it a second time. The gospel writers do a masterful – or rather, inspired - job of informing us of the suffering (passion) of our Lord Jesus Christ. Their accounts are detailed enough, but regard this sacred time as just that - a sacred and blessed thing. If you aren’t already thinking about the suffering (and resurrection) of our Lord Jesus Christ, let me invite you to read a bit in the coming days about just that. Here are some suggestions:
Take readable chunks of text each day and begin to “bite down” into it. Take some notes. Pray over one key thought or idea. Let it move into your heart and outward into your life.
18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, (1Pe 3:18 ESV)
In Him,
Don