This is my favorite week of the year. I find
myself meditating much more on our Lord’s passion: His triumphant entry into
Jerusalem, His cleansing of the Temple, the Last Supper, the betrayal by Judas,
the Lord’s final instructions, He arrest, trial and Crucifixion, and His
glorious Resurrection.
I tend to live a more holy life during this
annual commemoration than at other times during the year as I carefully consider
that I owed a debt I couldn’t pay, while
He paid a debt He didn’t owe.
On Wednesday of Holy Week, we always show the death
of the Lord by observing the Lord’s Supper. Involved in that observance is the
introspection required of the partakers. “Let a man examine himself” taught the
Apostle Paul, before taking the bread and the wine.
On crucifixion day, I find myself walking and
working in a sort of a fog, trying to grasp the reality of Christ, the pure,
innocent Son of God, dying for a worm like me.
I spend the next couple of days in anticipatory
excitement, knowing that the greatest day of this impactful week it the last
day, the culmination of redemption by the glorious Resurrection of Jesus by the
fantastic power of Almighty God.
I hope that you will be transported this week
from the mundane to the spiritually sublime as you meditate day by day on our
Lord’s passion for your soul.
