Today’s One Year Bible Reading (Numbers 15:17-16:40, Mark 15:1-47, Psalm 54:1-7, Proverbs 11:5-6)
I have been reading the King’s Cross (2011) by Tim Keller alongside my Gospel reading of Mark.
Today, our One Year Bible Reading in Mark ushers us right into the Holy of Holies.
Here is a note on Mark 15:34:
By saying the centurion “hear his cry,” Mark is pressing the story right up to your ear. If you listen closely to that cry–My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?–you can see the same beauty, the same tenderness. If you see Jesus losing the infinite love of his Father out of his infinite love for you, it will melt your hardness. No matter who you are, it will open your eyes and shatter your darkness. You will at long last be able to turn away from all those other things that are dominating your life, addicting you, drawing you away from God. Jesus Christ’s darkness can dispel and destroy your own, so that in the place of hardness and darkness we have tenderness and light and life (pp. 209-10).
