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On this day of Lent, we invite you to reflect on these scriptures. What is the Spirit saying to you today?

Psalm 5:1-7

Listen to my words, Lord, consider my lament. Hear my cry for help, my King and my God, for to you I pray. In the morning, Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait expectantly. For you are not a God who is pleased with wickedness; with you, evil people are not welcome. The arrogant cannot stand in your presence. You hate all who do wrong; you destroy those who tell lies. The bloodthirsty and deceitful you, Lord, detest. But I, by your great love, can come into your house; in reverence I bow down toward your holy temple.

Jeremiah 11:1-5

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: \u201cListen to the terms of this covenant and tell them to the people of Judah and to those who live in Jerusalem. Tell them that this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: \u2018Cursed is the one who does not obey the terms of this covenant\u2014 the terms I commanded your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt, out of the iron-smelting furnace.\u2019 I said, \u2018Obey me and do everything I command you, and you will be my people, and I will be your God. Then I will fulfill the oath I swore to your ancestors, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey\u2019\u2014the land you possess today.\u201d

I answered, \u201cAmen, Lord.\u201d

Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-10

Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are\u2014yet he did not sin. Let us then approach God\u2019s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need\u2026During the days of Jesus\u2019 life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with fervent cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him and was designated by God to be high priest in the order of Melchizedek.

John 7:37-39

On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, \u201cLet anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.\u201d By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given since Jesus had not yet been glorified.

Prayer

Almighty God, whose most dear Son suffered pain before joy, and was crucified before entering glory, mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, may find it the way of life and peace.\xa0 And by faith, following his purity of life, may we with him receive the crown of everlasting life. This we ask in the name Jesus Christ our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.

Amen.