Thursday, March 22

Now it was the custom at the festival to release a prisoner whom the 

people requested. A man called Barabbas was in prison with the 

insurrectionists who had committed murder in the uprising. The 

crowd came up and asked Pilate to do for them what he usually did.             

(Mark 15:  6-8) 

 What would we do? Would we call for the release of Barabbas or 

Jesus? Let’s consider the situation. Barabbas was a known entity; 

Jesus was a loose cannon. Barabbas was in prison for supporting the 

Jewish insurrection against Rome; Jesus was challenging the Jewish 

traditions. So, what would we do? Would we go with the flow that 

supported the Jewish leaders’ decision to do away with the Jesus 

problem? Or would we listen to that small voice inside that said “No.  

This is wrong.” Would we even hear that small voice? 

Hopefully, the Lenten period has given us time to reflect. Hopefully, it 

has been a time to listen. The Lord is with us constantly. “Prepare ye 

the way” to listen for that voice; not just in Lent, but every day. 

“… the answer is blowin’ in the wind.” – Bob Dillon 

Gary Kimmel 

              And when I think that God, His Son not sparing, 

              Sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in; 

              That on the cross, my burden gladly bearing, 

              He bled and died to take away my sin. 

                                        “How Great Thou Art” Hymn 

                                         Carl Boberg (1859-1940)