Fifth Sunday in Lent
Readings from the Revised Common Lectionary
In what ways has God put his law within you and written it on your heart?
How does it feel to know that God remembers your sin no more? How is this different from God forgetting about your sin?
How have you experienced knowing God in the sense of this new covenant?
Take a moment and offer your own lament to God over your own sin. Let the words of this psalm be your guide.
How are you experiencing truth and wisdom from God in your inner being?
How are your clean heart, God’s presence, and the Holy Spirit connected to your joy in salvation?
“In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission.” How does Jesus’s example of “loud cries and tears” inform your own prayers?
Verse 8 says that Jesus learned obedience. How is the Holy Spirit helping you to learn obedience like Jesus today?
Meditate on Jesus, the one who learned obedience, as “the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him.” What is the Spirit teaching you through those words?
Meditate on verses 24 and 25. How is your life like this grain of wheat?
What does Jesus teach us about following God when it’s hard and our souls are troubled?
How is the cross of Christ drawing you to Jesus today?
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As you finish, choose one of these four texts and let it guide you into a time of prayer.