Kenneth D. Boa - Once-A-Day 40 Days to Easter Devotional
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Daily readings for Lent that will bring you closer to Jesus.
As you read this powerful devotional during the Lenten season, you will experience spiritual growth through interaction with Scripture from both the Old and New Testaments. The readings in the NIV Once-A-Day 40 Days to Easter culminate in the Passion Week and Easter Sunday giving you a greater understanding of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus as you examine critical passion narratives in the Gospels.
Through your interaction with these Lenten readings, you will be a joyful witness of Gods carefully orchestrated plan to redeem the world through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
Written by Dr. Kenneth Boa, president of Reflections Ministries, each daily reading includes a:
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DAYS TO EASTER
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John Allen Turner
Lent and Our Preparation for Easter
He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth.
Isaiah 53:7
I n his incarnation, Christ was made in human likeness (Philippians 2:7). He was a man, but more than a man; He was a servant, but more than a servant. His true glory was veiled in the weakness of his humanity.
The King of the universe, the Lord of glory, voluntarily became a pauper for our sake. He had to borrow a place to be born, a boat to preach from, a place to sleep, a donkey to ride upon, an upper room to use for the last supper and a tomb in which to be buried. He created the world, but the world did not know him. He was insulted, humiliated and rejected by the people he made. Yet he loved them even to the end, submitting to an agonizing and ignominious death. Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole (Galatians 3:13; compare Deuteronomy 21:2223). And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to deatheven death on a cross (Philippians 2:8). It has been observed that only a divine being can accept death as obedience; for ordinary people it is a necessity.
Our Lord came to do the will of his Father and that obedience required a sacrifice (see Hebrews 10:5 9). It was because of this obedience that we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all (Hebrews 10:10). Jesus was able to endure the pain and shame of the cross because of the joy set before him (Hebrews 12:2).
My friend John Alan Turner has crafted a wonderful series of reflections that will guide you through this Lenten season to prepare you for your celebration of the glory of the resurrection. Each of the 40 days has a series of Scriptures, a meditation and a prayer that will enrich and elevate your thoughts as you reflect on the Biblical meaning of this season and its relevance for your life today.
As John puts it, Easter begins at Christmas. Joy to the world! For unto us a child is born; unto us a Son is given. Away in a manger. Silent night. This is where it begins. And yet we know the rest of the story. This baby was born for one primary purpose: to die.
Kenneth Boa, September 2012
And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit. At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.
Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.
READ ALSO GENESIS 3:1724 AND COLOSSIANS 2:1314.
Since the fall of humans in the garden, people have lived with the knowledge that they are separated from their Creator. Jews in Jesus day knew this full well, and in case they forgot, there was the curtainthe great, heavy curtain of blue, purple and scarlet thread and finely twisted linen (see Exodus 26:31). Four inches thick and so strong the historian Josephus said that horses tied to either side of it pulling could not tear it in two, it separated two rooms in the tabernacle.
Though the curtain was beautiful, its real purpose was not. It did not simply separate two rooms; it existed to bar entrance to Gods holy place. It sent a message about the separation between God and people, serving as a reminder that no one was to ever approach God except in the limited ways he meticulously prescribed.
The curtain represented a closed door, open only to the high priest, and to him only once each year. And the only way he could survive entrance to that holy place was by the sprinkling of blood. The curtain constantly reminded Gods people of their sin and the separation it brought between them and the One they longed for. The curtain, in one piece for so many years, communicated that God is holy, and his people, in their sin, were not.
As we enter this Lenten season, we prepare our hearts to celebrate the day the curtain was torn in two, from top to bottom, from God to human. Jesus was the true and perfect sacrifice, paying the penalty for all sinonce for all. The curtain no longer served a purpose. Let us solemnly remember Jesus sacrifice on the day the holy place was opened to us.
Almighty Father, I rejoice in the knowledge that you actually want to be with me, a sinner, and to have me with you. I realize that your grace is far beyond my ability to comprehend. The sword of judgment that should have been held over me was broken on your Son and removed all barriers between us. Teach me how to come before you with the proper mix of humility and confidence. I confess my need for you and trust in what you have done for me. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.
Now the earth was corrupt in Gods sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. So God said to Noah, I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the arkyou and your sons and your wife and your sons wives with you. Noah did everything just as God commanded him.
READ ALSO 2 CORINTHIANS 5:1719,1 THESSALONIANS 1:910, HEBREWS 11:7 and 2 Peter 2:5.
Two extraordinary days of judgment have come in the history of our world. On the first, God destroyed all people, except one Noah (with his family). On the second, the opposite occurred: God judged one man, Jesus, as a sacrifice and a savior for everyone else. Noah was a righteous man. He had been faithful. But he was not sinless. We know that all have sinned and fallen short of Gods glory. And God had to know that Noah had and would again commit ugly sin. But God showed Noah magnificent favor. And that favor came in the form of a promise, a unilateral covenant, a one-sided showing of kindness so characteristic of the God of the Bible. Enter the ark, and you and your family will be saved. Now God makes a similar offer to us: We will be saved as we enter into Christ. Jesus saves us from judgment and Gods wrath, just as the ark saved Noah. The sacrifice made on the day we will celebrate as Good Friday was hideously painful, a cruel and demeaning punishment, the most wretched of deaths. But because of it, we and our families can be saved. That high price is a permanent reminder of the One who saved Noah and the One who saves us. Our appreciation is demonstrated by an obedient response, a total surrender and a handing over of the entirety of our lives. Noah got into the ark in obedience to God. We get into Jesus by the same obedience. And, like Noah, we are saved.
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