Lent: With One VoiceSample

A CRY FROM THE CROSS 5

An old pastor put in his will, ‘I want my deacons to be the pall bearers at my funeral. I want them to let me down one more time.’ As fallible and fragile human beings, we all let each other down. At His crucifixion, His male disciples let Jesus down. He was alone.

On the cross, the last words of our Savior were to His Father. The obedient and faithful Son commits Himself to the Father in death as in life. When your time comes, and it will, to part this planet, into whose hands will you commend your spirit?

The first question of the Heidelberg Confession is ‘What is your only comfort, in life and in death?’ And the answer, ‘That I belong — body and soul, in life and in death — not to myself but to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ.’

FOR REFLECTION
• What other options, beside God, are there to which to commit your afterlife?
• When has God proven Himself trustworthy and faithful to you?

PRAYER
Almighty God, we rejoice that the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus means that nothing ‘will be able to separate us from the your love in Christ Jesus’. By Your Spirit give us the faith to share this good news, to have courage as we face our future.