I will meditate on your precepts,
and fix my eyes on your ways.
I will delight in your statutes;
I will not forget your word.
Deal bountifully with your servant,
so that I may live and observe your word.
Open my eyes, so that I may behold
wondrous things out of your law.

~ Psalm 119:15-18

Looking to Holy Week

Each year our Lenten season ends with Holy Week, a week where we follow Jesus’ final days before his arrest, crucifixion, and resurrection. Last year on this very day, April 8, Austin experienced a total eclipse, and our eyes were turned skyward behind solar glasses to search for the phenomenon (safety first!).

Theologian John Calvin (1516-1564), a founder of the Protestant Reformation, described our Bible as the spectacles through which we better understand God. “Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God,” he wrote.

Holy Week is like the spectacles we put on to better understand Easter. Easter joy is made clearer to us if we consider the hope of Palm Sunday’s parade, the despair of Maundy Thursday’s arrest, and the pain of Good Friday’s crucifixion. I hope you will join us for these services because through Holy Week, Easter is even brighter.

Let’s turn our heart and minds heavenward during Holy Week, so that we are ready for the rising Easter sun. I look forward to this journey together.