Friday Mark 15:37-41
BIBLE PASSAGE
[Please read and meditate on the passage before (or after) reading the devotion.]
At the end of six agonizing hours, Jesus dies. But he didn’t go as one defeated. He dies “with a loud cry”. Most probably, it was “It is finished,” as recorded in John 19:30, that John said just before he died. He had finished doing his Father’s Will as a human, as the Incarnate Son of God. He had finished making a “new” way to God the Father, so that now all could freely come to Him – Jews and non-Jews, sophisticated and ordinary, law-abiders and lawbreakers, the (seemingly) religious and irreligious (and marginalized). This was evident in the tearing of the Temple curtain and in the Roman centurion acknowledging Jesus’ specialness. It was a cry of completion, victory, and obedience. Would you and I be able to say that when our lives ended? Only one who has learned how to die knows how to live.
Prayer: I look at my life and wonder if I have fulfilled the purpose you brought me into the world, Lord. And have I fulfilled the purpose for which you died for me? Your Word says that I have been “bought with a price” (1 Corinthians 6:20), and yet I continue to live mostly for myself. Forgive me, loving Lord Jesus, for not living totally through and for you. I want to live a “purpose-driven life”; I want your purpose to drive me! And with my last breath, may I too be able to say “I have done what You wanted of me”. I want to hear you saying to me, “Well done, my good and faithful servant…” Come fill me afresh, Sovereign Lord. Amen.
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[Please read and meditate on the passage before (or after) reading the devotion.]
At the end of six agonizing hours, Jesus dies. But he didn’t go as one defeated. He dies “with a loud cry”. Most probably, it was “It is finished,” as recorded in John 19:30, that John said just before he died. He had finished doing his Father’s Will as a human, as the Incarnate Son of God. He had finished making a “new” way to God the Father, so that now all could freely come to Him – Jews and non-Jews, sophisticated and ordinary, law-abiders and lawbreakers, the (seemingly) religious and irreligious (and marginalized). This was evident in the tearing of the Temple curtain and in the Roman centurion acknowledging Jesus’ specialness. It was a cry of completion, victory, and obedience. Would you and I be able to say that when our lives ended? Only one who has learned how to die knows how to live.
Prayer: I look at my life and wonder if I have fulfilled the purpose you brought me into the world, Lord. And have I fulfilled the purpose for which you died for me? Your Word says that I have been “bought with a price” (1 Corinthians 6:20), and yet I continue to live mostly for myself. Forgive me, loving Lord Jesus, for not living totally through and for you. I want to live a “purpose-driven life”; I want your purpose to drive me! And with my last breath, may I too be able to say “I have done what You wanted of me”. I want to hear you saying to me, “Well done, my good and faithful servant…” Come fill me afresh, Sovereign Lord. Amen.
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