{"id":6422,"date":"2023-04-06T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jenkinscp.org\/?p=6422"},"modified":"2023-04-06T09:52:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T14:52:50","slug":"day-38-a-path-through-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jenkinscp.org\/index.php\/2023\/04\/06\/day-38-a-path-through-lent\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 38 &#8211; A Path Through Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Day 38 - A Path Through Lent\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JiTcQm1DrQE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maundy Thursday &#8211; Day 38: Romans 5:1-5<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand, and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. And not only that, but we also boast in our afflictions, knowing that affliction produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God\u2019s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Holy Week &#8211; Week 7: Sacrifice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Luke 9:23-25 says, &#8220;Then he said to them all, &#8216;If any wish to come after me, let them deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will save it. For what does it profit them if they gain the whole world but lose or forfeit themselves'&#8221; Practicing sacrifice, and it is something we must practice, is not a comfortable place to be. As Jesus said, it may involve shame, losing one\u2019s life or lifestyle. And if we are called to follow Jesus\u2019 example, we follow in the way of sacrifice. In preaching about the Good Samaritan, Martin Luther King, Jr. said, \u201cThe first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: &#8216;If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?&#8217; But\u2026the good Samaritan reversed the question: &#8216;If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?\u2019\u201d Sacrifice involves putting the needs of others before our own. So, let us be able to reflect on the sacrifice we experience this week. What do we learn by going into, through and out the other end of suffering?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Path Through Lent is a daily devotional series that leads us from Ash Wednesday to Resurrection Sunday in preparation for Easter. Lent is a 40 day period before Easter that symbolizes the 40 days that Jesus was in the desert praying and fasting. (Matthew 4, Mark 1, Luke 4). 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