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    NIV, Once-A-Day 40 Days to Easter Devotional
    NIV, Once-A-Day 40 Days to Easter Devotional
    NIV, Once-A-Day 40 Days to Easter Devotional
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    NIV, Once-A-Day 40 Days to Easter Devotional

    By Kenneth D. Boa

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    Daily readings for Lent that will bring you closer to Jesus.

    As you read this powerful devotional during the Lenten season, you will experience spiritual growth through interaction with Scripture from both the Old and New Testaments. The readings in the NIV Once-A-Day 40 Days to Easter culminate in the Passion Week and Easter Sunday giving you a greater understanding of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus as you examine critical passion narratives in the Gospels.

    Through your interaction with these Lenten readings, you will be a joyful witness of God’s carefully orchestrated plan to redeem the world through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

    Written by Dr. Kenneth Boa, president of Reflections Ministries, each daily reading includes a:

    • Scripture reading from the accurate, readable, and clear New International Version (NIV)
    • Devotion
    • Mediation that amplifies the Scripture passages
    • Prayer
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateFeb 5, 2013
    ISBN9780310421344
    NIV, Once-A-Day 40 Days to Easter Devotional
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    Kenneth D. Boa

    Ken Boa (PhD, New York University; DPhil, University of Oxford) is the president of Reflections Ministries and Trinity House Publishers. His recent publications include Conformed to His Image, Face to Face, Pursuing Wisdom, The Art of Living Well, Wisdom at Work, Living What You Believe, and Sacred Readings.

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      NIV, Once-A-Day 40 Days to Easter Devotional - Kenneth D. Boa

      day 1

      MATTHEW 27:50–51

      And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit. At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.

      HEBREWS 10:19–22

      Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.

      READ ALSO GENESIS 3:17–24 AND COLOSSIANS 2:13–14.

      MEDITATION

      Since the fall of humans in the garden, people have lived with the knowledge that they are separated from their Creator. Jews in Jesus’ day knew this full well, and in case they forgot, there was the curtain—the great, heavy curtain of blue, purple and scarlet thread and finely twisted linen (see Exodus 26:31). Four inches thick and so strong the historian Josephus said that horses tied to either side of it pulling could not tear it in two, it separated two rooms in the tabernacle.

      Though the curtain was beautiful, its real purpose was not. It did not simply separate two rooms; it existed to bar entrance to God’s holy place. It sent a message about the separation between God and people, serving as a reminder that no one was to ever approach God except in the limited ways he meticulously prescribed.

      The curtain represented a closed door, open only to the high priest, and to him only once each year. And the only way he could survive entrance to that holy place was by the sprinkling of blood. The curtain constantly reminded God’s people of their sin and the separation it brought between them and the One they longed for. The curtain, in one piece for so many years, communicated that God is holy, and his people, in their sin, were not.

      As we enter this Lenten season, we prepare our hearts to celebrate the day the curtain was torn in two, from top to bottom, from God to human. Jesus was the true and perfect sacrifice, paying the penalty for all sin—once for all. The curtain no longer served a purpose. Let us solemnly remember Jesus’ sacrifice on the day the holy place was opened to us.

      PRAYER

      Almighty Father, I rejoice in the knowledge that you actually want to be with me, a sinner, and to have me with you. I realize that your grace is far beyond my ability to comprehend. The sword of judgment that should have been held over me was broken on your Son and removed all barriers between us. Teach me how to come before you with the proper mix of humility and confidence. I confess my need for you and trust in what you have done for me. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

      day 2

      GENESIS 6:11–13,17–18,22

      Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. So God said to Noah, I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth … I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. … Noah did everything just as God commanded him.

      READ ALSO 2 CORINTHIANS 5:17–19,1 THESSALONIANS 1:9–10, HEBREWS 11:7 and 2 Peter 2:5.

      MEDITATION

      Two extraordinary days of judgment have come in the history of our world. On the first, God destroyed all people, except one —Noah (with his family). On the second, the opposite occurred: God judged one man, Jesus, as a sacrifice and a savior for everyone else. Noah was a righteous man. He had been faithful. But he was not sinless. We know that all have sinned and fallen short of God’s glory. And God had to know that Noah had and would again commit ugly sin. But God showed Noah magnificent favor. And that favor came in the form of a promise, a unilateral covenant, a one-sided showing of kindness so characteristic of the God of the Bible. Enter the ark, and you and your family will be saved. Now God makes a similar offer to us: We will be saved as we enter into Christ. Jesus saves us from judgment and God’s wrath, just as the ark saved Noah. The sacrifice made on the day we will celebrate as Good Friday was hideously painful, a cruel and demeaning punishment, the most wretched of deaths. But because of it, we and our families can be saved. That high price is a permanent reminder of the One who saved Noah and the One who saves us. Our appreciation is demonstrated by an obedient response, a total surrender and a handing over of the entirety of our lives. Noah got into the ark in obedience to God. We get into Jesus by the same obedience. And, like Noah, we are saved.

      PRAYER

      Gracious and merciful Father, you have made it clear that we cannot save ourselves. No one is perfect or even righteous; no one earns salvation. All of us fall short of your glory, and while it is true that some may live better lives, even the best cannot attain the perfection required in order to have fellowship with you. Thank you that, in your grace, you sent Jesus Christ to save me from the judgment to come. I believe in Jesus. I put my whole trust in him. And I ask that by your Spirit you would place me securely and safely in him. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

      day 3

      GENESIS 11:1,4–7

      Now the whole world had one language and a common speech … Then they said, Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth. But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. The Lord said … Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.

      ACTS 2:5–8,11

      Now there were staying

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