 Prepare to Listen. Those who do what is true come to the light.
Prayerfully Read John 3:16-21 16‘For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. 17‘Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18Those who believe in him are not condemned; but those who do not believe are condemned already, because they have not believed in the name of the only Son of God. 19And this is the judgement, that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. 20For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed. 21But those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God.’ Prayerfully Wonder and Reflect Read these familiar words again as if for the first time and be surprised. Sometimes we’re so sure we know a passage that we no longer see what’s there. For many of us, this is the case with John 3, especially v. 16. We memorized and personalized it—God loves me. So now we skim these verses, or read them only for comfort. But there is a warning we might miss: “this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light.” The judgment isn’t God pouring out all sorts of bad stuff on the world, like a global pandemic, a natural disaster, a serious illness. Judgment is this: Christ came to draw all into the light, a healing relationship with God, but people preferred darkness not light, lies not truth. We see this today, even among church people who prefer the lies and conspiracy theories that abound, who call news they don’t like, “fake news!” They prefer darkness to light. Hiding in darkness is popular because it means we can’t see what is real and what needs to change. We’d rather believe the lies and distortions than admit our sin and repent. But that choice keeps us in darkness, keeps us away from the clarifying light of Jesus. That’s God’s good judgement. Only when we “do what is true” will we come into the light where our deeds will be clearly seen as deeds done in God. Our world today needs people who live this way, choosing truth and walking in the light, standing against the darkness of lies and deceit. In Jesus the light has come. Choose the light. What will it mean for you to choose the light? Prayerfully Respond Lord, keep drawing me to your light and to what is true that my deeds may be clearly seen as deeds done in you, the Truth and Light. Amen. Live obediently. Choose the light of Jesus.
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 Prepare to Listen. The word of the cross is the power of God.
Prayerfully Read 1 Corinthians 1:17-25 17For Christ did not send me to baptize but to proclaim the gospel, and not with eloquent wisdom, so that the cross of Christ might not be emptied of its power. 18For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19For it is written, ‘I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.’ 20Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, God decided, through the foolishness of our proclamation, to save those who believe. 22For Jews demand signs and Greeks desire wisdom, 23but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling-block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, 24but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25For God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength. Prayerfully Wonder and Reflect “In God’s wisdom, the world didn’t know God through wisdom. So it gave God pleasure through the folly of our proclamation, to save those who believe.”[1] Wisdom, foolishness: What do you think is the difference? I suspect Paul, by today’s standards, wasn’t an acceptable preacher. What he said was far more important than how he said it. He rejected “eloquent wisdom,” and clever sermons. He had only one message: “we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling-block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles.” Jews didn’t expect their Messiah to die as a common criminal on a cross. Greeks were only interested in in words of eloquent wisdom. The Cross turned the world upside-down and thus, as Isaiah wrote, “The wisdom of their wise shall perish, and the discernment of the discerning shall be hidden.”[2] Paul understood and thus determined to preach nothing but Christ and him crucified. In God’s wisdom no one can know God by wisdom (i.e., intellectual searching). We come to God through the foolishness of a message about the cross, that made salvation available to all peoples. It’s bizarre good news, contrary to everything we were taught. The cross teaches that we only win when we lose. Paul proclaimed the cross, not with eloquent or powerful sermons, “so that the cross of Christ might not be emptied of its power.” The power is Christ’s death, not our eloquent words. Wright has a point when he writes, “The church needs to recover its nerve and talk about the good news once more as good news, not good advice—as good news that will appear bizarre to some and shocking to others but will carry, as before, the salvation and wise power and love of the one God.”[3] What surprised or challenged you in this passage today? Prayerfully Respond Lord, give us the courage to trust your wisdom that is so foolish to so many and to stay true to proclaiming, in word and deed Christ and him crucified. Amen. Live obediently. Stay true to the word of the cross of Christ. [1] N. T. Wright’s translation of v. 18 in Simply Good News. HarperOne 2015, p. 27. [2] Isaiah 29:14. [3] Wright, 2015, p. 125.  Prepare to Listen. We have sinned by speaking against the LORD and against you; pray to the LORD.
Prayerfully Read Numbers 21:4-9; John 3:14-15 4From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; but the people became impatient on the way. 5The people spoke against God and against Moses, ‘Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we detest this miserable food.’ 6Then the LORD sent poisonous serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many Israelites died. 7The people came to Moses and said, ‘We have sinned by speaking against the LORD and against you; pray to the LORD to take away the serpents from us.’ So Moses prayed for the people. 8And the LORD said to Moses, ‘Make a poisonous serpent, and set it on a pole; and everyone who is bitten shall look at it and live.’ 9So Moses made a serpent of bronze, and put it upon a pole; and whenever a serpent bit someone, that person would look at the serpent of bronze and live. John 3:14-15 14And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. Prayerfully Wonder and Reflect What caught your attention in today’s reading? I suspect most of us disregard Numbers as a book to encourage our faith. Nevertheless, I also suspect most of us are familiar with this story of poisonous serpents because of Jesus’ well-known words, “just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.” We focus on Jesus’ words, and ignore the story of the Hebrews in the wilderness. Can we learn anything from Numbers that will help us understand Jesus and/or ourselves better? I believe we can. They complained; so do we, albeit about different stuff. The newly freed slaves quickly became restless and complained. “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we detest this miserable food.” That “miserable food” was manna, their daily bread from God. Rejecting the food was rejecting God. The poisonous serpents got their attention. Sometimes, when we’re too deaf, too rebellious to hear God, drastic measures are called for. The question is: How will we respond when God acts to get our attention? The Hebrews repented. “We have sinned by speaking against the LORD and against you; pray to the LORD to take away the serpents from us.” God was gracious, providing the means of healing and forgiveness—a bronze serpent on a pole. Jesus likened this act to his death on the cross and “whoever believes in him may have eternal life,” healing and wholeness now and forever. What do you need to repent of today? Repent and look to the cross and receive God’s grace of forgiveness. Prayerfully Respond Lord, we have known your forgiveness and yet we still fall. Keep us ever looking to you, the one lifted up, and help us lift you up high so that others may look to you as well and believe. Amen. Live obediently. Lift high the cross.  Prepare to Listen. Serve the LORD with fear, with trembling kiss his feet.
Prayerfully Read Psalm 2 1Why do the nations conspire, and the peoples plot in vain? 2The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and his anointed, saying, 3‘Let us burst their bonds asunder, and cast their cords from us.’ 4He who sits in the heavens laughs; The LORD has them in derision. 5Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and terrify them in his fury, saying, 6‘I have set my king on Zion, my holy hill.’ 7I will tell of the decree of the LORD: He said to me, ‘You are my son; today I have begotten you. 8Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession. 9You shall break them with a rod of iron, and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.’ 10Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth. 11Serve the LORD with fear, with trembling 12kiss his feet, or he will be angry, and you will perish in the way; for his wrath is quickly kindled. Happy are all who take refuge in him. Prayerfully Wonder and Reflect Perhaps recognizing the importance of this psalm, Handel wrote pieces on four verses.[1] What importance do you see in Psalm 2? The Psalter, a book that teaches us how to pray, doesn’t begin with prayer, but with two psalms that get us ready to pray. Prayer takes us out of a world of anxieties, problems and ego-centeredness into a world of wonder, mystery and God-centeredness. But “we are not used to wonder, God and mystery,”[2] or a world where God rules supreme. We need help to get and remain there. Psalm 2 takes us there by focusing our attention on God’s power over peoples and nations, kings and rulers, including those plotting to reject God’s Word and God’s control over their lives and lusting after control of our lives. Plotters conspiring against the rule of God are in every generation and nation, including our own. We become afraid, too intimidated to trust God to help us resist the plotters. Peterson warns, “It we are intimated” we’ll forfeit everything to those “who set themselves against the Lord.”[3] What we need is an imagination that enables us to see BIG, see God as infinitely bigger than the competing bigness of our world. Psalm 2 enlarges our view of God. It points us, not to an earthly savior, but a divine Messiah, designated by God as “my son;” who became one of us and lived among us. When earthly plotters intimidate us or we look to humans for salvation, we’ll be too intimidated to pray to the LORD. Let Psalm 2 enlarge your vision of God and God’s sovereign power to rule over the plotters, whoever they are. Name what intimidates you then name what makes God BIG. Trust and serve that BIG God today and always. Prayerfully Respond Lord, enlarge my vision of you so that I don’t let the plotters intimidate me or keep me from praying and serving you with that fear and trembling that rejects all other gods. You alone are Lord. May I live that truth today. Amen. Live obediently. Serve the Lord in fear and trembling. [1] Verses 1-2, 3, 4, 9. [2] Peterson, E. Answering God: The Psalms as tools for prayer. San Francisco, CA: Harper and Row. 1989, p. 23. [3] Peterson, 1989, p. 29.  Prepare to Listen. The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul.
Prayerfully Read Psalm 19:1-4, 7-11; Romans 10:18 1The heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims his handiwork. 2Day to day pours forth speech, and night to night declares knowledge. 3There is no speech, nor are there words; their voice is not heard; 4yet their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. 7The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the decrees of the LORD are sure, making wise the simple; 8the precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the LORD is clear, enlightening the eyes; 9the fear of the LORD is pure, enduring for ever; the ordinances of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. 10More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey, and drippings of the honeycomb. 11Moreover by them your servant is warned; in keeping them there is great reward. Roman 10:18 But I ask, have they not heard? Indeed they have; for ‘Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.’ Prayerfully Wonder and Reflect Have you ever experienced the wordless speech of God in nature? What happened? “The world is charged with the grandeur of God,” wrote Hopkins.[1] “The heavens are telling the glory of God,” wrote the psalmist. “Have they not heard?” asked Paul. His answer was a resounding yes, if like the psalmist and Hopkins they listened for God in the grandeur of creation, in the speech of the heavens, in the handiwork of creation. “Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.” An open book that can’t be banned! In Lent we’re encouraged to be inward focused, name our sin and repent of all that blocks God’s glory from being seen. Today’s psalm encourages us to look outward and upward. Become attuned to God’s wordless voice in creation and stand in awe. But, if we stop there, maintains the psalmist, we’ll never truly know God. Nature’s revelation of God is limited. To know God personally, we must turn to the written Word, because, as Jacobson writes, “In creation the Creator comes to us hidden, wearing nature as a mask. In the word, the LORD (Yahweh) comes to us personally.”[2] This is why we read the written Word. It revives the soul, makes wise the simple (the humble of heart), rejoices the heart, enlightens our eyes. Why wouldn’t we spend time with the Word that does all this? It is more desirable than fine gold, sweeter than the sweetest honey or chocolate. It warns us who read and guides us onto the right way of God’s righteousness. In keeping God’s words there is great reward. What do you imagine the great reward is? Do you want it? Prayerfully Respond Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to you, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer. Amen (Ps 19:14). Live obediently. Read the Word and be warned onto the right way. [1] Gerard Manley Hopkins, “God’s Grandeur.” [2] Jacobson in deClaissé-Walford N., Jacobson R, and Tanner, B. The Book of Psalms. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 2014, p. 213.  Prepare to Listen. Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
Prayerfully Read John 2:13-22 13The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money-changers seated at their tables. 15Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. 16He told those who were selling the doves, ‘Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a market-place!’ 17His disciples remembered that it was written, ‘Zeal for your house will consume me.’ 18The Jews then said to him, ‘What sign can you show us for doing this?’ 19Jesus answered them, ‘Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.’ 20The Jews then said, ‘This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?’ 21But he was speaking of the temple of his body. 22After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken. Prayerfully Wonder and Reflect Read the story as if for the first time and be open to seeing it as brand new. What did you see for the first time? “The Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple,” proclaimed the prophet Malachi (3:1). The Jewish people expected that Messiah’s mission would begin by cleansing the temple, restoring right worship before right government. Jesus’ action and words that day created panic among the people, but the disciples remembered the psalmist’s words, “Zeal for your house will consume me” (Psalm 69:9). Two important lessons are worthy of reflection. First, Jesus redefined the temple. When “the Jews” (meaning religious rulers) demanded an explanation for his chaos, Jesus replied, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” The temple was the symbol of God’s presence on earth, the place where forgiveness, healing, and encounters with God happened. Jesus said he’d replaced the temple. John writes, “He was speaking of the temple of his body.” In other words, what the temple once offered Jesus now offers. According to Wright, “Jesus believed himself to be called to speak and act as if he were the replacement of the temple and all that it stood for.” [1] Only he can offer forgiveness, healing and encounters with God today. Second, John points to Jesus’ resurrection. Only after Jesus was raised from the dead did the disciples have their aha moment of understanding. They remembered this event and Jesus’ words and believed. They were affirmed in their commitment to follow Jesus, regardless of cost. The resurrection changed everything for them and for us. What challenged or surprised you in this story today? Prayerfully Respond Lord, give me aha moments often because I forget so soon and begin to doubt or become complacent. Keep me alert to signs of resurrection, of newness in my life and world today. Amen. Live obediently. Be alert to signs of resurrection. [1] Wright, Tom. Spiritual and Religious. SPCK, 2017, p. 62.  Prepare to Listen. Grant me the grace of living by your law.
Prayerfully Read Exodus 20:12-17 12Honour your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. 13You shall not murder. 14You shall not commit adultery. 15You shall not steal. 16You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour. 17You shall not covet your neighbour’s house; you shall not covet your neighbour’s wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbour. Prayerfully Wonder and Reflect The last six commandments, five beginning with you shall not, have to do with loving your neighbor. Our familiarity with them means that we often fail to pay attention to them. Take a moment to pay attention now and wonder: Which one do you think is the most challenging and why? The tenth commandment, also the longest, is a prohibition to covet. Brueggemann describes coveting as the act “that is the ultimate destruction of the neighborhood, for coveting generates mistrust and sets neighbor against neighbor.”[1] Notice the repetition of the word neighbor (3 times) in this command. Coveting is more than a wishful longing for what another has. It includes “forceful action to secure what is craved.”[2] We are commanded to protect our neighbor, to love them as we love ourselves, the commandment Jesus named as the second greatest (Mark 12:28-34), not forcefully take their stuff. The 10th commandment is surprisingly comprehensive. It includes not coveting another’s house (i.e., the socioeconomic means of the household), spouse, means of production (slaves, donkey, ox), and ends with a sweeping and inclusive phrase, “anything that belongs to your neighbor.” Covetousness is greed, and greed, as Paul twice maintained, is idolatry.[3] Thus the last commandment brings us back to the first three that prohibit idolatry. To break the 10th command is also breaking the first three against idolatry. We’ll only resist idolatry when we resist greed, and only resist greed when we resist idolatry, whatever form it takes in our lives. Why do you think idolatry and greed, covetousness are related? Prayerfully Respond Lord, forgive me for greed, coveting and idolatry. Help me resist idols, remembering that you alone are the one who redeemed me from slavery to sin. Amen. Live obediently. Do not covet. [1] Brueggemann, Walter. Sabbath as Resistance. 2014, p. 69. [2] Ibid, p. 70. [3] Ephesians 5:5 and Colossians 3:5.  Prepare to Listen. The LORD blessed the sabbath day and consecrated it.
Prayerfully Read Exodus 20:8-11 8Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy. 9For six days you shall labour and do all your work. 10But the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God; you shall not do any work—you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns. 11For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but rested the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and consecrated it. Prayerfully Wonder and Reflect “For the most part, contemporary Christians pay little attention to the Sabbath.”[1] Do you agree/disagree and why? I grew up in a Christian home that paid little attention to the sabbath. A day of rest, work-stoppage for all members of the community, animal and human, slave and alien never crossed our minds. We went to church and then did our own thing, even if that meant doing work. Ignoring the sabbath isn’t a smart idea. True, we’re not saved by keeping the sabbath, or any of the other commands. We’re saved by grace, through faith in Jesus. Yet, in a sense, sabbath rest is salvation. It saves us from becoming workaholics, getting caught up in greed for more money to buy more stuff. It is, writes Brueggemann, “the most difficult and most urgent of the commandments in our society” because it’s a summons to defy contemporary society that is driven to make more, have more, be more.[2] Sabbath rest is far more than defying cultural norms or giving us time to refresh for the coming workweek. That’s not why God commanded the sabbath. God blessed and consecrated one day a week because “in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but rested the seventh day.” Our God is not a workaholic! God is a Sabbath-keeping God and made restfulness not restlessness the center of life for creation. When we rest in a weekly rhythm, we’re choosing to side with the God of rest; we’re choosing life over death, for ourselves and for our world. How can you take a weekly rest, work-stoppage, despite the cost? Plan to do it. Prayerfully Respond Lord I want to be like you and make rest a weekly rhythm in my life so that I reflect you and your restfulness to the world. Amen. Live obediently. Remember the sabbath and keep it holy. [1] Brueggemann, Walter. Sabbath as Resistance. 2014, p. ix. [2] Brueggemann 2014, p. xiv.  Prepare to Listen. Grant me the grace of living by your law.[1]
Prayerfully Read Exodus 20:1-7 Then God spoke all these words: 2I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; 3you shall have no other gods before me. 4You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me, 6but showing steadfast love to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments. 7You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not acquit anyone who misuses his name. Prayerfully Wonder and Reflect How often in recent years have you reflected or heard sermons on the Ten Commandments? The Ten Commandments are one the most well-known passages of Scripture. In the U. S. we argue, not about their role in our lives, but where to display them, missing the point. If they’re to play a role in our lives, and that’s critical, we must learn and take them to heart, rather than arguing about where to display them. Lent is an appropriate time to reflect on “all these words” God spoke. The foundation for them is: “I am the LORD your God” who redeemed you. There is only one Redeemer for the Christian, and that’s Jesus, not any other. We know this, but it’s easy to slip up and look to a human to save us. It happened to Israel; it can happen to us. Thus, there are three commands against idolatry: “you shall have no other gods before [besides] me,” make no graven image, and don’t take God’s name in vain. The fact that there are three commands against idolatry suggests that God knows how easy it is for us to make God into an image we can control. If our God is manageable, can be readily understood, hates and loves the same people we do, that’s an idol. When we claim that a political candidate, a mere human, can save our nation (and I hear that often this election year), we’ve created an idol, replaced the eternal Savior Christ with a temporal and inadequate human savior. The LORD who redeems is beyond our control, beyond our ability to even imagine. “You shall have no other gods.” What could become an idol in your life? Prayerfully Respond Lord, you alone are my Redeemer. Keep me alert so that I resist the temptation to create a god who is manageable and undemanding. Grant me the grace to live by your law. Amen. Live obediently. Resist idolatry. [1] Psalm 119:29 (Revised English Bible).  Prepare to Listen. Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Prayerfully Read Romans 10:12-17 12For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; the same Lord is Lord of all and is generous to all who call on him. 13For, ‘Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.’ 14But how are they to call on one in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in one of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone to proclaim him? 15And how are they to proclaim him unless they are sent? As it is written, ‘How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!’ 16But not all have obeyed the good news; for Isaiah says, ‘Lord, who has believed our message?’ 17So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the word of Christ. Prayerfully Wonder and Reflect Recently I saw this bumper sticker: ‘Heaven has a wall and strict immigration policies. Hell has open borders!’ Which means only a few are in and most are out. It seems to me that whoever wrote and whoever displays this sign has never really learned the good news of Jesus. What’s your response to the bumper sticker? Paul tackled something similar, a belief that Jews were in, Gentiles were out. He counteracts this, saying, “there is no distinction…; the same Lord is Lord of all and is generous to all who call on him.” Lord of all, sovereign and in full control of all people, all creation. Thus, Jesus can be and is generous to any who call on him. This is the good news. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you’re from, what race you were born into, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Paul didn’t make this up. He learned it from the prophet Joel (2:32), whom he quotes in v. 13. But, and there is a but, how can people call on and believe in someone they’ve never heard of? Faith, says Paul, “comes from what is heard.” Whatever people hear will become the source of their faith, be it good or worthless stuff. The task of the preacher sent by God is to proclaim “the word of Christ.” Christ is both the content and author of the word of Christ; the message and the messenger. God’s sent preachers, like Paul, must determine “to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.”[1] And why wouldn’t he or she? Christ is the only Savior with the power to save all, anyone who calls on him. Faith comes by hearing. What are you listening to and how will it increase your faith in Christ? Prayerfully Respond Lord, you are the only one who can save anyone who calls and believes. Keep me faithfully following you and not some human who won’t last. I choose to proclaim Christ who is generous to all. Amen. Live obediently. Call on the generous Lord. [1] 1 Corinthians 2:2 |
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