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Saturday: Silence Hidden

Posted by kenneth - 10/04/09 at 01:04:09 pm

On the Road to Calvary
This week we will explore a few of the many events that took place during the week prior to Christ’s crucifixion and his resurrection from the dead on the first day of the week, the day we call Easter. Let us walk with Jesus as he walked those last steps of his life on the road to Calvary.

SATURDAY, April 11
Reading: John 12:23-25
(In the Gospels there is very little written about the days Jesus was in the tomb)
23Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 24I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. 25The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

Devotional: Silence Hidden

Jesus was executed.
Travelers prepared to go home.
Hope was low.
The High Priest was smug.
The devil thought that he had won.
The Romans had squelched another potential rebellion.
The world, the flesh and the devil were in control.

In the ground lay the broken and dead seed, hidden from the sight of man, waiting for the power of God to conquer the sting of death and grant new life to His creation. In silence it lay hidden, and the world would never be the same again.

Our hope is not in what we see, but in what is promised.

For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
~ Colossians 3:3-4

Prayer: Jesus, create within me an excited expectation for the power of God to regenerate new life in me where death once reigned. Amen.

Emmaus Church