#HOLYWEEK2019 Part 1: Hebrews 10:1-14
Hey family.
We’ve been walking through this Lenten season with Exodus together, and it’s been so so good, and now, we’ve finally made it to the last few days before Good Friday.
Holy Week is always a hard week to process because it’s the last week before Christ’s crucifixion. Perhaps some of you have been thinking about it, and perhaps others have not gotten around to it, but either way, I find it important that we as a family think through and worship through this week together as we reflect on Christ’s life and death and resurrection.
So as today comes to a close, let’s meditate as a family on the work of Christ for us as we think deeply about the cross and what Christ did for us there. I’ll walk us through a time of personal worship— take just 5, 10, or even 15 minutes to remember in the midst of your busy (or not-so-busy) schedules to think about Jesus and the real price He paid to be with you forever and set you free.
Listen: Better Word, Lean Back, Before the Throne of God Above.
Read: Hebrews 10:1-14
Reflect: Winston T. Smith in Heart of the Matter:
“Feel the futility of it.
In the Old Testament, the priests of Israel were required to offer daily sacrifices to atone for sins. Hebrews points out that the fact these sacrifices had to be performed over and over for hundreds of years shows that they were ineffective in removing sin (Hebrews 10:1–2).
Let the language of these tasks being “endless” and being required “year after year” make you tired.
But when Jesus comes, acting as our high priest, he makes a sacrifice of his own life and body that pays the debt once and for all. “But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God” (Hebrews 10:12). Jesus, unlike any other priest, completed his work and was able to sit down. Like his Father in Genesis 1, Jesus sits because his labor for us is perfect and complete. In other words, “It was very good.”
Because Jesus rests, you can rest. Jesus’ death and resurrection embody the promises of Sabbath. His work is perfect; complete. He has redeemed us from our sin. By trusting him and obeying his words and his Spirit within us, we are no longer slaves to our corrupted nature.
We are free to be God’s children. His resurrection is a picture and promise of the new life we have now and will have forever when Jesus returns and we are resurrected as well.”
Meditate: “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for yhe who promised is faithful.” (Heb. 10:23)
Happy worshipping and reflecting, y’all.
love,
janedo
