#maundy

Holy Week is a time to focus on God and His gifts to us.  Maundy Thursday is a special day.  It is often called Holy Thursday reminding us of Jesus’ interaction with His disciples as he instituted the Communion and washed their feet.

John 13:34  NLT

So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. 

Thursday of Holy Week is one of the best known of the week.  It is the first observance of the Lord’s Supper and the Passover with His closest friends.  Jesus shared the meaning of His blood and body that we continue to celebrate.  It is in Jesus’ body and blood that we find the forgiveness of sin and redemption.  

The conversations that took place around that table must have been amazing and powerful.  It would have been eye opening to be there.  

What would you do if you knew you had 24 hours to live?  Great question.  Jesus knew.  It was His last day.  This was His destiny.  He was willing to step in where we couldn’t go.  He was willing to do for us what we could not do for ourselves.

John describes this last day in ways that the no other Gospel does.  Jesus told them what was ahead.  He was honest and strong.  He confronted the accuser.  He even gave direction to the disciples that included Peter denying Jesus.

Yes, this denial was something we still talk about today.  Peter, James and John were three of the closest to Jesus, and this day, Thursday of Holy Week, must have been very hard for Peter and all of the disciples.

May we know Jesus like they knew Jesus.  Just ahead is the cross, and around corner is the resurrection.  Past that is abundant life for us.  Thank you, Jesus, for this and more!

John 14:6-7  NLT

Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.  If you had really known me, you would know who my Father is. From now on, you do know him and have seen him!”

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