Jesus is Lord!!

Week 3 Lenten Devotions

Lent Day 17: Monday March 8

Theme for the Week: The Apostles’ Creed as a Statement of our Faith

Passage for the Day: Philippians 2:9-11

⁹ Therefore God also highly exalted him

and gave him the name

that is above every name,

¹⁰ so that at the name of Jesus

every knee should bend,

in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

¹¹ and every tongue should confess

that Jesus Christ is Lord,

to the glory of God the Father.

Reflection:

In the Day 16’s Lenten message, we watched Peter come to know that Jesus is the Son of God. The light bulb went off in Peter’s head as he came to an understanding of who he had been hanging around with.

In today’s reading we hear from Paul’s letter to the Community at Philippi, most likely written some 25 to 35 years after Jesus died on the cross. In the years that passed since Peter’s first revelation, the significance of Jesus as the son of God has become evident to the Christian community. Here Paul writes of Jesus, not only as the Son of God, but as the Exalted One and as Lord. He encourages the Philippians to confess or affirm that Jesus is Lord. This is one of the few Bible texts that actually refer to Jesus as Lord. Texts such as this one shaped the faith of those who created the Apostles’ Creed and inform our own understanding of Jesus as both God’s Son and Lord. You can hear an echo of these words in the beginning to the Second Article of the Creed: “I believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, our Lord…”

Prayer Themes: Pray for the faith to confess that Jesus is Lord. Pray for an understanding of what it means that Jesus is my Lord and Savior. Pray for others to come to know Jesus as Lord. Thank God for Jesus as my Lord.