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Multimedia Lent Devotional – Wednesday of Holy Week

April 15, 2025

2025:

Wednesday of Holy Week:

  • Scripture (Don Vick) – Matthew 26:14-25
  • Reflection (Judi Campbell)
  • Prayer (Pam Cammarata)
  • Videos: Matthew 26:14-25
  • Music: “Judas” (Joseph Habedank) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOPTrvmHU5w

2024:

Wednesday of Holy Week:

Psalm 69:8-10, 20-21, 31, 33 – “I have become a stranger to my kindred, an alien to my mother’s children. It is zeal for your house that has consumed me; the insults of those who insult you have fallen on me … Insults have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.  They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink … I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving … the Lord hears the needy, and does not despise his own that are in bonds.”

In The Problem of Pain, C. S. Lewis famously said, “pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” This prophetic psalm beckons to us when we’re in pain.

After Jesus rose from the dead, the writer of Hebrews encouraged us with these words, “we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God … one who is [able] to sympathize with our weaknesses … one who in every respect has been tested as we are, yet without sin.” When we are heartbroken, remember Jesus, whose heart was broken and devastated by insults to the point of despair. When we are left without pity, sympathy, consolation, or comfort, remember Jesus, who was utterly abandoned and alone in his time of greatest need. When we are misunderstood, rejected, humiliated, betrayed, or falsely accused, remember Jesus, who experienced all of these. Jesus fully understands and enters into our pain with us.

In remembering Jesus, we respond to the invitation to confidently approach God’s throne of grace. Picture a beloved child who is worn out from their play and exploration, knees grazed, tummy empty, ready for a cuddle, reaching their arms up to the one they know will embrace them and give them everything they need. That’s the kind of confidence we get to have with God, who lavishes upon us mercy and grace and everything else we need. Remember Jesus.

2023:

Wednesday of Holy Week:

  • Scripture (Dawn Roberson) – Psalm 69:7-9, 20-21, 30, 32-33
  • Reflection (Patricia Dotson)
  • Prayer (Paul Sculley)
  • Videos: Matthew
  • Music: “He was despised and rejected of men (Part 2, Movement 23)” (Handel’s Messiah)

Each short Multimedia Lent Devotional is an invitation to set aside time each day during the season preceding Easter. Lent is a solemn 40-day period we observe as we seek to draw near to God prior to the great celebration of Easter. During Lent,

  • we intentionally practice sober reflection, serious repentance, and sincere restitution, in which we more fully recognize our brokenness as humans, looking always to Jesus Christ as our Savior and sanctifier;
  • we seek to live lives marked by simplicity, self-denial, and surrender, in imitation of Christ Jesus, who fasted for 40 days in the wilderness before He began His public ministry;
  • we look for ways in which we express love for neighbors and nations in need in practical ways through generously giving of our time, talents, and treasures.

This collaboration is brought to you by Liberty Vineyard Church

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