"This is my body, which is given for you." Luke 22:19
Action Tuesday Suggestion:
Jesus enacted his faith and prayers in physical ways. This week we will be observing the ultimate act in Jesus giving his body to the cross for our forgiveness and salvation. We too, have been blessed with a body, a body that can become an enacted expression of our faith and prayers.
Go through this day, thinking of your body, not only as a precious, fragile gift, but also as it relates to the God who also took on human flesh for your good. As you bathe, feed, and clothe your body this day, think of some way that body can be given in Christ's service.
It might mean setting aside our preoccupations on our comforts in order to serve someone else in this world that God so loved. You might choose to fast, or keep food to its essentials, and give what you would normally spend to the hungry. What is the cross you choose to take, not just the one that comes normally through the circumstances of living. This is my body, too, how can I give it back to Christ?
This was from the 2002 St. Mark Presbyterian Lenten Devotional. Comment below on how you took action today.
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