![]() This devotional is adapted from a series provided by Pastor Natasha Vedder to Reformed Worship 146 © December 2022 Worship Ministries of the Christian Reformed Church. ![]() He is your Father too.Īll that is needed God’s hands will provide. I will not let the cross you bear grow beyond your endurance. What do I notice and feel as I look at this picture?Ĭan God really provide a table in the wilderness of loneliness and temptation? Why did the Spirit then immediately send him into the wilderness? Jesus’ baptism must have been a spiritual highlight for him. However, we can be confident when we learn who we are in Jesus Christ. Amen.Īt that time, Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. Just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love with you I am well pleased.” At once the Spirit sent him out into the wilderness, and he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and angels attended him (Mark 1:9–13). Grab your binoculars and your travel pack and climb into the jeep, because it is time for a jungle VBS The world around us is like a jungle, where we learn to survive even though others try to manipulate, steal, trick or take advantage of us. O Lord, can you really spread a table in the wilderness of life? Walk with me as I walk this path of the cross with honest questions of life in my heart and my face turned to find the table you have spread in the wilderness for so many before me, and now also for me. The Temptation in the Wilderness by Briton Rivière, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons Week One : A Table in the Wilderness for Jesus ![]() This devotional series is designed in conjunction with the Lenten worship series called "A Table in the Wilderness" that we will be exploring at Covenant CRC Woodstock over the next six weeks.Įach week you will be provided with an image for reflection, prayers, a scripture reading and reflection questions. How do we journey through the wilderness of our current context, and what can we learn from individuals throughout Scripture who found themselves in the literal wilderness? Five years ago would you have predicted that we were all to experience a global pandemic, that the threat of global warming would become a climate crisis complete with chaotic weather resulting in untold climate refugees, that a war would affect food supplies around the world causing more food insecurity than thought possible? In sum we've been through a lot! As the news cycle moves on and on, we face different but possibly no less disturbing challenges. You can tune into that broadcast via our WPC Facebook page or on YouTube.
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