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  Morning, March 31 Go To Evening Reading “With his stripes, we are healed.” —Isaiah 53:5 Pilate delivered our Lord to the lictors to be scourged. The Roman scourge was a dreadful instrument of torture. It was made of the sinews of oxen, and sharp bones were inter-twisted everywhere among the ligaments, so every time the lash came down, these pieces of bone inflicted fearful laceration and tore off the flesh from the bone. The Saviour was, no doubt, bound to the column and thus beaten. He had been beaten before, but this of the Roman lictors was probably the most severe of his flagellations. My soul, stand here and weep over his poor stricken body. Believer in Jesus, can you gaze upon him without tears as he stands before you, the mirror of agonizing love? He is at once fair as the lily for innocence and red as the rose with the crimson of his own blood. As we feel the sure and blessed healing that his stripes have wrought in us, do our hearts melt at once with love and grief?

  Morning, March 30 Go To Evening Reading “He was numbered with the transgressors.” —Isaiah 53:12 Why did Jesus suffer himself to be enrolled amongst sinners? This wonderful condescension was justified by many powerful reasons. In such a character, he could better become their advocate . In some trials, the counselor is identified with the client, nor can they be looked upon in the eye of the law as apart from one another. When the sinner is brought to the bar, Jesus appears there himself. He stands to answer the accusation. He points to his side, his hands, his feet, and challenges Justice to bring anything against the sinners whom he represents; he pleads his blood and asserts so triumphantly, being numbered with them and having a part with them, that the Judge proclaims, “Let them go their way; deliver them from going down into the pit, for he hath found a ransom.” Our Lord Jesus was numbered with the transgressors so they might feel their hearts drawn towards him . Who can

  Morning, March 29 Go To Evening Reading “Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered.” —Hebrews 5:8 We are told that the Captain of our salvation was made perfect through suffering. Therefore we who are sinful and far from perfect must not wonder if we are called to pass through suffering too. Shall the head be crowned with thorns and the other body members be rocked upon the dainty lap of ease? Must Christ pass through seas of his own blood to win the crown, and will we walk to heaven dryshod in silver slippers? No, our Master’s experience teaches us that suffering is necessary, and the true-born child of God must not, would not, escape it if he might. But there is one very comforting thought in Christ’s “being made perfect through suffering”—that he can have complete sympathy with us. “He is not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities.” In this sympathy of Christ, we find a sustaining power. One of the early

  Sunday, April 2, 2023, | Lent Sixth Sunday in Lent Palm Sunday Year A Old Testament Zechariah 9:9, 10 Psalm Psalm 24 New Testament Philippians 2:5–11 Gospel Matthew 21:1–11   Christian Worship Three-Year Lectionary (with Supplemental Lectionary) . Print. Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2009. Sunday, April 2, 2023, | Lent Sixth Sunday in Lent Palm Sunday Old Testament Zechariah 9:9–12 Psalm Psalm 24 New Testament Philippians 2:5–11 Gospel Matthew 21:1–9   Christian Worship One Year Lectionary . Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2009. Print. Sunday, April 2, 2023, | Holy Week Palm Sunday Liturgy of the Palms Year A On the same date: Palm Sunday, Liturgy of the Word Psalm Psalm 118:1–2, 19–29 Gospel Matthew 21:1–11   Episcopal Church (USA) Revised Common Lectionary . Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2016. Print. Sunday, April 2, 2023, | Lent Passion Sunday or Palm Sunday Liturgy of the Palms Year A

  Morning, March 28 Go To Evening Reading “The love of Christ which passeth knowledge.” —Ephesians 3:19 The love of Christ in its sweetness, fulness, greatness, and faithfulness passeth all human comprehension. Where shall language be found which shall describe his matchless, unparalleled love towards the children of men? It is so vast and boundless that, as the swallow but skimmeth the water, and diveth not into its depths, so all descriptive words but touch the surface, while depths immeasurable lie beneath. Well, might the poet say, “O love, thou fathomless abyss!” This love of Christ is measureless and fathomless; none can attain it. Before we can have any right idea of the love of Jesus, we must understand his previous glory in its height of majesty and his incarnation upon the earth in all its depths of shame. But who can tell us the supremacy of Christ? When enthroned in the highest heavens, he was very God of very God; by him were the heavens made, and all the hosts