Easter Preparation

I got so excited last night, making a grocery list.  Well, this Friday is mine and Nathan's 10-yr anniversary, so I'm planning food for that day too (Nathan gets off of work because it's Good Friday!)
Anyway, so I'm making a chocolate hazelnut macaroon torte for dessert on Easter Sunday.  The day before that I'll make some food for my family's get-together.  And I'll make some special anniversary food.  I just get so excited about this side of holidays.  Foooood, Glorious fooood! *singing*

And then I remembered, you know, Christ's giving his life for his people because He desired to die for his bride and display his love for her.  I remembered that I meant to really be thinking on that this week.  I went to desiringgod.org and I downloaded their PDF file of Love to the Uttermost: Devotional Readings for Holy Week.  

I loved Monday's devotion because, though I'd read these words before, I may not have thought about the full impact of their meaning.
"He set His face for Jerusalem."  His disciples thought they journeyed toward a kingdom and glory of a different kind.  But Christ went to certain death, and He was passionate about getting there.
Sometimes I make His act of obedience smaller, by thinking it was just a combination of deception and finding Himself in the wrong place at the wrong time, surrounded by bad people.  But he knew he went toward flogging and pain and death when he set his face toward Jerusalem.  He went without reserve, or flaw, or failure.  He knew he had to fulfill those things to redeem lost sinners, and He gave himself to the floggers and spitters and beard rippers, and death.

I hope you go check out the devotion in between dying eggs and such. :)

Oh my, grocery store time.