Do not loose your fearlessness now, then since the reward is so great. You need perseverance if you are to do God’s will and gain what he has promised. Hebrews 10: 35-36

“Everything we know about Jesus indicates that he was only concerned with one thing: to do the will of the Father. . . . Jesus is not our savior simply because of what he said to us or did for us. He is our savior because what he said and did was said and done in obedience to his Father. . . . Our lives are destined to become like the life of Jesus. . . . Not only did Jesus come to free us from the bonds of sin and death, he came also to lead us into the intimacy of his divine life. . . . All that Jesus does we may do also.”

to read the rest of this devotional see Show Me the Way: Daily Lenten Readings by Henri Nouwen