Day 1

The Cross from Matthew's Point of View

Scripture:

Read or listen to Matthew 26-27.


Reflection Questions:

1. What details in these chapters catch your eye?
2. What do we learn about the character of Jesus in the garden, during his trial, and at the cross?
3. In what ways does this passage challenge you to trust, confess, surrender, and worship?


Prayer:

Now speak, Lord, and I will hear. Now call, Lord, and I will answer. Now command me, impose on me what you will, and I will submit.

None but the Lord, none but Christ, no other lord nor lover. I am yours, Lord, your own.

Do with your own, demand of your own, whatever you please.

What will you have me be, Lord, what will you have me do? That is what I will do and be.

No longer what I will, but your will be done. Amen.

Richard Alleine, “Your Will Be Done,” in Piercing Heaven: Prayers of the Puritans, ed. Robert Elmer (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2019), 151.