Take With You Words

In the final chapter of Hosea, he says to Israel, “Take with you words and return to the lord.” We’re hoping this year’s lent devotional will give you words to do just that—words to reflect on all that God has done and is doing through Jesus for us, to turn your gaze toward Him. We’re doing that through: the words of poets, the word of God, and the words of your church family.

“By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

“No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.”

“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.”

“Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.’”

“Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?”

“You hold my eyelids open; I am so troubled that I cannot speak. I consider the days of old, the years long ago. I said, ‘Let me remember my song in the night; let me meditate in my heart.’”

“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”

“Is it I, Lord?”

“Truly this was the Son of God!”

“I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of his wrath; he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light…he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation; he has made me dwell in darkness like the dead of long ago.”

“Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here, for he has risen, as he said.”