It Is Finished (Week 4): TUESDAY
With all the noise in the world, do you hear the voice of God? Your calendar tells you what to do, but do you remember who you are? Being comes before doing. This is a call to put first things first. Return to the Lord with this daily pattern of prayer and devotion. Set aside this time as a sanctuary. Find a space free of distraction and follow this pattern.
Invitation Prayer
O God, the Psalm says, “As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.” (Psalm 103:13) So I am quick to run to you. I know you look on me with compassion. So I come to you first. I rush into your arms. I speak into your ear. As my Father in heaven, hear my voice today. In Jesus name, Amen.
Confession
Forgive my sins, O Lord – forgive me the sins of my present and the sins of my past, the sins of my soul and the sins of my body; the sins which I have done to please myself, and the sins which I have done to please others. Forgive me my wasted and idle sins, forgive me my serious and deliberate sins, forgive me those sins which I know and those sins which I know not, the sins which I have labored so to hide from others that I have hid them from my own memory. Forgive them, O Lord, forgive them all.
Word
“My soul magnifies the LORD, my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.” (Lk 1:46-47)
Meditation
At the end of his life, Jesus looked down from the cross at his mother. Rewind to the beginning and see Mary the pregnant teenager. Life was uncertain. She was young and vulnerable. And yet she uttered a poetic song we call the Magnificat. God is magnified – made big – in small, vulnerable things. In Mary, we see this profound revelation: Out of compassion, God chooses to use the lowly and the last.
You are not Mary the mother of Jesus, but you have your own uncertainties and vulnerabilities. Consider them. Even write them down today. Remember that God has compassion on vulnerable people like you. He uses the small and lowly to magnify his might.
Lord of little ones, I am weak, but you are strong. Even in my smallness, be made big. All glory to you! Amen.
Sending Prayer
Lord of compassion, you have called us into a new family by the blood of your cross. Give us your spirit of compassion that we might love one another as you have loved us. You love me and you send me. I now go in your name. Amen.
*Today's devotion is taken from It Is Finished by Jeff Cloeter, published by CTA – Christ to All at ctainc.com
With all the noise in the world, do you hear the voice of God? Your calendar tells you what to do, but do you remember who you are? Being comes before doing. This is a call to put first things first. Return to the Lord with this daily pattern of prayer and devotion. Set aside this time as a sanctuary. Find a space free of distraction and follow this pattern.
Invitation Prayer
O God, the Psalm says, “As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.” (Psalm 103:13) So I am quick to run to you. I know you look on me with compassion. So I come to you first. I rush into your arms. I speak into your ear. As my Father in heaven, hear my voice today. In Jesus name, Amen.
Confession
Forgive my sins, O Lord – forgive me the sins of my present and the sins of my past, the sins of my soul and the sins of my body; the sins which I have done to please myself, and the sins which I have done to please others. Forgive me my wasted and idle sins, forgive me my serious and deliberate sins, forgive me those sins which I know and those sins which I know not, the sins which I have labored so to hide from others that I have hid them from my own memory. Forgive them, O Lord, forgive them all.
Word
“My soul magnifies the LORD, my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.” (Lk 1:46-47)
Meditation
At the end of his life, Jesus looked down from the cross at his mother. Rewind to the beginning and see Mary the pregnant teenager. Life was uncertain. She was young and vulnerable. And yet she uttered a poetic song we call the Magnificat. God is magnified – made big – in small, vulnerable things. In Mary, we see this profound revelation: Out of compassion, God chooses to use the lowly and the last.
You are not Mary the mother of Jesus, but you have your own uncertainties and vulnerabilities. Consider them. Even write them down today. Remember that God has compassion on vulnerable people like you. He uses the small and lowly to magnify his might.
Lord of little ones, I am weak, but you are strong. Even in my smallness, be made big. All glory to you! Amen.
Sending Prayer
Lord of compassion, you have called us into a new family by the blood of your cross. Give us your spirit of compassion that we might love one another as you have loved us. You love me and you send me. I now go in your name. Amen.
*Today's devotion is taken from It Is Finished by Jeff Cloeter, published by CTA – Christ to All at ctainc.com
