FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - HYATTSVILLE, MD

  • Home
  • About Us
    • About Us >
      • Our History
    • Our Pastor
    • Our Staff
    • Gallery
  • Worship
    • Schedule >
      • The Season of Lent
    • Prayer >
      • The Lord's Prayer & the Apostles' Creed
      • Cindy's Prayers
    • Sunday School
  • Get Involved
    • Ministries >
      • Feeding Ministry
      • 2023 CPR Certification
      • Ministry Sign Up Form
    • Children & Youth Ministry
    • Music Ministry
  • PRESCHOOL-CEC
    • ABOUT THE CEC
    • Enrollment
  • Give
  • Contact Us
  • Lenten Devotions
  • Home
  • About Us
    • About Us >
      • Our History
    • Our Pastor
    • Our Staff
    • Gallery
  • Worship
    • Schedule >
      • The Season of Lent
    • Prayer >
      • The Lord's Prayer & the Apostles' Creed
      • Cindy's Prayers
    • Sunday School
  • Get Involved
    • Ministries >
      • Feeding Ministry
      • 2023 CPR Certification
      • Ministry Sign Up Form
    • Children & Youth Ministry
    • Music Ministry
  • PRESCHOOL-CEC
    • ABOUT THE CEC
    • Enrollment
  • Give
  • Contact Us
  • Lenten Devotions

 Lenten Devotions

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

3/1/2023

 
Read: Romans 4:1-5, 13-17
 
            The Promise to Abraham:  Paul’s use of “Law” capitalized in the CEB, does not mean the same as our current notion of lay: enacted by legislatures and enforced by judicial action.  Rather, the whole Torah (the first five books of our Bible) was in Paul’s day called the Law.  We might better say “rules for living>’  So Paul is saying here that even observing those rules for living is not sufficient to be considered righteous by God.
 
            Paul says the reason this is important is that only the children of Israel will inherit the Law.  We Gentiles who call ourselves Christians because we are followers of Jesus can still inherit righteousness through faith which he traces back to Abraham.  Abraham then is our father through faith.  Furthermore by faith, one admits dependence on God’s grace.  One might add that because Abraham is our father through faith, the children of Israel are our ancestors in faith.
 
            This suggests a Lenten exercise in devotion: let us throw ourselves on God’s mercy so we might receive his grace.
 
            Father, please help us to know your grace and mercy even though we don’t deserve it.  Amen.
 
Jim Langworthy
(from 2018 Lent Devotional Book)

Comments are closed.

    Lent Devotions
    2023

    Archives

    March 2023
    February 2023

First United Methodist Church of Hyattsville
6201 Belcrest Road
Hyattsville, MD 20782
301-927-6133
church@fumchy.org​
​
Sunday Schedule
10:00AM - Worship Celebration
1st Sunday - Worship Celebration with Holy Communion
Sunday School 'All Ages are Welcome' (times vary by class)