25 February
This generation seeks a sign but gets only Jonah: death, descent, resurrection. They want spectacular proof; Jesus offers scandalous pattern.
The sign is always the same: life through death, rising through descent, glory through suffering. We keep demanding different evidence for the one truth that saves.
26 February
Ask, seek, knock: the grammar of persistence, the syntax of desire. God isn’t stingy but generous, not reluctant but eager.
If human parents give good gifts, how much more the Father? Prayer is becoming shameless enough to want, honest enough to ask, trusting enough to keep knocking.
27 February
Anger is heart-murder; insults are soul-violence. Reconcile before offering your gift; the altar can wait but relationship can’t.
God refuses our worship when we’re refusing our brother or sister. The vertical and horizontal are inseparable; there’s no loving God while hating the image-bearer standing in our way.
28 February
Love your enemies, pray for persecutors, be perfect as your Father is perfect. This isn’t moral achievement but divine imitation: God rains on the just and unjust.
Grace doesn’t discriminate; sun shines on good and evil alike. We become children of the Father by loving without condition, without calculation, without return.
Sunday, 1 March
When light breaks through ordinary clouds, we glimpse what lies beyond our seeing. The transfiguration wasn’t meant to blind the disciples but to open their eyes to glory hidden in plain sight. Mountains become sacred not because they’re high but because we climb them searching. On this Lenten journey, transformation begins when we stop looking up and start looking within.
Monday, 2 March
Mercy flows like water from a wellspring that never runs dry; it pools in places we least expect. What we give away multiplies in ways no accountant could measure or ledger could contain. The Father’s compassion isn’t rationed but lavished, falling on fields both fertile and fallow. In giving without counting, we learn the mathematics of grace.
Tuesday, 3 March
True authority whispers where power shouts, serves where privilege demands to be served. The scribes and Pharisees carried heavy books but light hearts; they pointed the way but never walked it. To teach is to embody, to lead is to kneel; the greatest in God’s kingdom wears the simplest shoes. Religious piety divorced from humble service becomes a tomb, beautifully decorated but empty of life.