Thursday, September 26, 2024

Journal

Please use one of the prompts below to get your journaling started.

  • Recall a significant reaction, conversation or event.

  • Explore your fears and what’s behind them.

  • Write about a relational conflict you are experiencing.

  • List out all that you are grateful for.

Bible Text: Luke 7:11-17 (ESV)

Luke 7:11-12  

  • Two “crowds” meet at the town gate: one headed by Jesus, and the other by a coffin. Reflect on this scene as a picture of two kinds of processions in life.  Which procession am I in, how did that happen, and what does this imply about my life’s mission?

  • Note the tragic details of this story captured in the words “the only son of his mother...a widow.” Reflect on the fact that even though a “considerable crowd from the town was with her,” there was nothing the crowd could do in the face of death.

  • Note what Jesus does, feels, and says in v. 14. What does this show about the heart of Jesus?

  • Reflect on what this story reveals about Jesus, and about our ultimate destiny.