March 30, 2026
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Reading along with us in our Lenten readings from “The Life of Jesus”? Here’s today’s reading:
Lent 2026 – Day 25 in the Book: “The Life of Jesus“
The Week Jesus Dies
Read Section 5.54 (pages 179-181)
This book is an account of Jesus’ life and teachings told in chronological order from the four Gospels to create one continuous story.
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Never has anyone sacrificed so much for so many and He did not deserve any of it. Crucifixion was a horrific form of capital punishment and for Jesus to carry His cross after being beaten so severely is unfathomable. And yet even there, He is telling women not to cry for Him but for themselves. And for His first words after being nailed to the cross and the cross being dropped in the ground to be Father forgive them, just shows the heart of our great Savior who was sacrificing Himself so we could be forgiven. There is no better reason to trust Him to take care of us in every aspect of our lives.
Amen Pastor Peter!!. To think Jesus asks his father to forgive the Jewish leaders, Pilate,and all the Roman politicians, the solders, and all those who stood by and watched, and the father answered that prayer by opening up salvation to even the ones that murdered Jesus. As we read later, the Roman centurion speaks out, “Surely he was the son of God”. In Acts ch. 6. it states that many priests were converted to the Christian faith. I always read this and I say how could they do this, such a horrific act. One who knew no sin. But I’m just as guilty, for my sins played a part in putting Jesus to death also, but I have new life through Jesus nailing my sins to the cross!!
Lent 2026 – Day 25
The two criminals with Jesus are something that I have come to reflect on more in recent years. I believe the criminals depict each and every one of us at some point or moment in our lives. It also reflects the daily struggles we face between good and evil, repentance and rejection. We all have rejected Christ in some way and at some time and now we have accepted him as our Savior. We also all deal with daily challenges in our spiritual lives. If anyone has never heard the song “Man on The Middle Cross” by Eric Rhett, I encourage you to look it up and listen carefully to the words. For those who have listen again and reflect. The 3 crosses on that hill truly represent the choices we are faced with in our daily lives.
Lent Day 25
Thank you, Jesus!
I think of how many times someone has made me angry, hurt me, or even accidentally said something to offend me and how difficult it was for me to get to a place of forgiveness. Some things more serious than others but nothing like what my Savior was experiencing and His first words were “Forgive them” The temptation any one of us would have had to use the power Jesus possessed to end it, to hear the calls to save yourself and do just that, but instead He hung there listening to the insults and the ridicule. Then the focus shifts to us, which criminal will we be? The criminal that wants Jesus to perform for us, to make our lives easier, and to save us on our terms and the way we want for us to believe. I want to be the criminal that recognizes what Jesus was doing was for him, was to bring him the redemption he could never earn on his own. To see that he was guilty and hung there deservingly so, but Jesus hung there innocent to make him right before God and bring him salvation.
Lent 2026 -Day 25
Lent day 25 -2026
It’s never too late to repent and be saved as demonstrated by the criminal that asked Jesus to remember him. He was in the last moments of his life. And though Jesus hung on the cross broken and dying, He still promised the criminal he would be in paradise with him today. He guaranteed him his salvation (by faith), right up to the last few breaths he had left in him.
Nothing can stop Jesus from bringing one into his fold through faith and confession. It doesn’t matter who we are or what we’ve done. We have been forgiven! An amazing gift.
Amen, Sue. And glad you have success posting!
Gods plans often defy man’s logic. Gods plan to save man required sacrifice. Man envisioned Messiah as a conquering king, not a suffering servant. They taunt Jesus to save Himself. He very well could have….but He must fulfill the Fathers purposes.
“Or do you think that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He will provide Me with more than twelve legions of angels? How then could the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must happen thus?””
Matthew 26:53-54 NKJV
Lent day 25 Every time I read this it just gets me more and more to think of what he went through the pain and suffering he endured to give us a hope and a future with him. What Amazing Grace and the gift of salvation we have access to because of Christ’s sacrifice, he paid the ultimate price to give us forgiveness. Thank you Jesus!!
Given that Jesus gave His life for our forgiveness, how can we not forgive one another?
It’s the Saturday after Good Friday, and everytime I think about what Jesus went through to save us all I can say is thank you, thank you, thank you, Jesus! I will be grateful, I will praise him, I will reflect upon his love, I will know deep in my heart that I am saved. This will be my mindset as I go about my day.