Heaviness & Hallelujah!
A friend asked me over ten years ago, “Why don’t you write a devotional for Lent?” I can’t do it, and I don’t have time to do it, I thought. There are 40 days of Lent, plus the Sundays! That’s a lot of prayer-poems! I felt the Heaviness of my own self-doubt, and inadequacy. How many times have I doubted that I can do what God is asking me to do? I have my list of excuses, no reasons, why I can’t obey. It is true – I can’t do it without God’s help and the power of the Holy Spirit. The completion of this Daily Devotional for Lent is definitely a Hallelujah! moment!
 
In our journey of discipleship - becoming more like Jesus, we’ll experience Heaviness and Hallelujah! I invite you to journey with me through Lent, as we follow Jesus’ footsteps to Jerusalem and the Cross. Allow yourself to feel the Heaviness of your own sin and brokenness, and the Heaviness of the pain and suffering in the world today. But also experience the Hallelujah! moments in your everyday life. Go from the Heaviness of Jesus being brutally killed on a cross on Good Friday, to the Hallelujah! of Jesus being miraculously raised from the dead on Easter morning, so that we could be fully forgiven, healed and set free! Hallelujah!