[The Blog] @PDCPC - Holy Week Devotional | Day 3

WEDNESDAY OF HOLY WEEK

READ:

John 13:21-32  (NIV)
²¹ After he had said this, Jesus was troubled in spirit and testified, “Very truly I tell you, one of you is going to betray me.”

²² His disciples stared at one another, at a loss to know which of them he meant. ²³ One of them, the disciple whom Jesus loved, was reclining next to him. ²⁴ Simon Peter motioned to this disciple and said, “Ask him which one he means.”

²⁵ Leaning back against Jesus, he asked him, “Lord, who is it?”

²⁶ Jesus answered, “It is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish.” Then, dipping the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. ²⁷ As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him.

So Jesus told him, “What you are about to do, do quickly.” ²⁸ But no one at the meal understood why Jesus said this to him. ²⁹ Since Judas had charge of the money, some thought Jesus was telling him to buy what was needed for the festival, or to give something to the poor. ³⁰ As soon as Judas had taken the bread, he went out. And it was night.

³¹ When he was gone, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified and God is glorified in him. ³² If God is glorified in him, God will glorify the Son in himself, and will glorify him at once.

REFLECT:

Remind yourself you are in God’s presence and read again…notice how God might be speaking to you through His Word – dwell on a word or phrase that jumps out at you. Is there some area of your life that you are not allowing Jesus to enter? Is there something that you refuse to relinquish control to God?  Let your heart respond to God in prayer, trust the one that loves you and gave His all for you…take refreshment in God’s presence.

PRAY:

Gracious and merciful God,
you see into the secret places of our hearts,
where we mourn our sins.
As we turn again to your grace, receive our prayers.
Look with mercy on our contrite hearts,
wash from us the stain of iniquity,
and create a new and right spirit in us,
that we may declare your praise
and offer an acceptable sacrifice in these Lenten days; through Christ Jesus, who bore our sins on the cross. Amen.

 

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"Reprinted from Revised Common Lectionary Prayers, copyright © 2002 Consultation on Common Texts"
Christ, Forgive a Pentitent!, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=56471 [retrieved April 6, 2020]. Original source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint_Mary_of_the_Presentation_Catholic_Church_(Geneva,_Indiana)_-_stained_glass,_Christ_forgive_a_penitent.jpg.