Modern choruses and songs focus a lot on the glory of Christ. ‘Glorify his name’, we sometimes sing’; ‘You are the king of glory’; ‘Glory to the King’, and so we could continue, almost ad infinitum. That’s all right and proper, of course, provided that we always remember in what his glory precisely lies: not in his eventual exaltation but in his willingness to endure the cross, to suffer and die, to give his all for our sakes. That’s a lesson the Church, and we as individuals, need always to keep in mind, as this brief offering from The Little Book of Lent Prayers reminds us.
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When I’m too full of myself, Lord,
puffed up with my own importance,
remind me that you revealed your glory
not through a crown,
but through a cross.
Amen.
