5 Hymns for Lent Meditation
Author’s note: I write and schedule blogs a couple of months in advance. As the coronavirus has borne down on us, striking fear and frenzy into our minds and hearts, I think we need Lenten meditation, or at least meditation on the beauty and love of Christ more than ever. Please take some time to listen to at least one of these hymns (listed at the end), and share with others who need to have their minds fixed on things above.
Lent, the season leading up to Easter, compels us to meditate, to slow our lives down and think on Christ. Think about his life, think about his death, think about his resurrection. Think about how our lives would be so very different if he had not hung on a cross and been raised from the dead.
Music lends itself to meditation. Today, for those of you who love music and/or games, we’re going to play a little “Name That Hymn.” Below you’ll find quotes from some famous hymns for meditating on Jesus’ sacrifice for us. Next to the hymn, you’ll find a related Scripture. Then at the very end (try not to peek), I’ll post the answers and a link to a Youtube video of the hymn. Please write a comment and tell us how you did, or which ones you like the best, or others you would add. Have fun, and enjoy this meditative exercise.
Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!
And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe. They came up to him, saying, ‘Hail, King of the Jews!’ and struck him with their hands.
Then he took it down, wrapped it in a linen shroud, and laid him in a tomb cut in stone, where no one had ever yet been laid.
Philippians 3:8-10
Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.