Worthy is the Lamb

I just spent some time in the Word, and wanted to share. I'm doing the Jesus the One and Only Study and I'm down to the last 15 days or so. This time will be completely focused on Christ's death and resurrection. Today's study was about Jesus asking Peter and John to go and make preparations for the Passover meal in the upper room. These were tasks that were time consuming, and often carried out by women, so Peter and John might have even grumbled at the task before them. Beth Moore points out that when God calls us to a specific task it is so He can reveal Himself either to us or through us. There is always purpose to what God is calling us to! She went on to explain that the biggest part of the preparation for the Passover meal was preparing the lamb, and how later in scripture, both of these disciples described Christ as the Lamb. God used this time of preparing to reveal Himself to these two disciples. He became the ultimate Passover Lamb. The Lamb that died once for ALL! As I read John's words in Revelation 5 describing the Lamb, something struck me. While Jesus is portrayed as the Lamb that was slain, He is on the throne! The story of the cross doesn't end with the sacrifice of the Lamb, it continued as Christ overcame death and sin and Satan when He rose on the third day, and it still continues as He reveals Himself to and through each of us who is willing to be obedient to the tasks He calls us to, even the menial, mundane, everyday ones that we might have a tendency to groan about.

Tonight marks the beginning of our Disciple Now Weekend with our teenagers at church. This weekend's theme is "Revealed." Join me in praying that God would reveal Himself to teenagers in a very real way. That they would truly see what happened on the cross and the victory they can live their lives in because of Christ!