Tuesday’s Reflection
A FRIEND CONCLUDED HIS HOLY WEEK SERMON by citing the last line of “O Sacred Head Now Wounded”: “Lord, let me never, never outlive my love to thee.” He confessed that the phrase had haunted him his “conscious spiritual life,” wondering what the hymn writer might have meant, exactly, by that phrase. Was he thinking about death, praying that God would not let him live so long as to grow cold in his religious affections? Or was he acknowledging his place in that third shadow, in that third crowd where most of us find ourselves — so busy with life and its stuff that we are in danger of “outliving” our love to Jesus?
- Thomas R. Steagald
Shadows, Darkness, and Dawn
From page 133 of Shadows, Darkness, and Dawn: A Lenten Journey with Jesus by Thomas R. Steagald. Copyright & copy; 2010 by Thomas R. Steagald. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Upper Room Books. http://www.upperroom.org/bookstore/. Learn more about or purchase this book.
Tuesday’s Question
In what ways do you order your life to reflect your love for Jesus? Share your reflections.
Today’s Scripture Reading
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