This weekend we are celebrating Valentine’s Day. Statistics show that this weekend people spend more than any other to show their love for each other. This week will also begin our observance of the Lenten season approaching Easter. How appropriate that this weekend of expressing our love to one another will also launch our remembrance of Christ’s love for us.
It was Jesus who said, “Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13). So, God’s greatest expression of love for us was the cross when Jesus laid down His life for us. The Apostle Paul wrote, “But God demonstrates His own love for us in this; while we were still sinners Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).
In our faith we often forget that the cross (and all the suffering that goes with it) is the greatest expression of love that the world has ever known. Starting this week (Ash Wednesday) this blog will, hopefully, provide for you a fresh new appreciation of the Lenten experience. We will be looking at the cross through the lens of Psalm 23 and the Crucified Christ as the Good Shepherd.
Please join us in this journey to the cross.
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