Whenever film makers want to get our attention they use a tried and truth method--slow motion. It's their way to guarantee, "They won't miss this!" Do you know God does the same thing?
God, the Great Director of redemption, uses a similar technique in the Bible. The text moves into slow motion so we won't miss what's coming. The Scripture only does this a few times: the creation of men and women, the birth of Jesus Christ, and the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ--it's this last one where the storyline really slows down. Through the accounting of the final supper with his disciples, the Garden, the trial, the denial, the torture, the last words of the Cross, the torn veil and so on, God is beckoning us to not just read but enter into the reality of the most important events in human history.
It's not often that we fast forward through slow motion scenes--kind of defeats the purpose. But, I often find, I can do that through Holy Week. After all, deadlines don't stop coming, texts don't stop buzzing, kids don't stop crying, etc.. But, if we can carve out a few places to slow down with the story, our experience value goes way up. Maybe it's taking one morning this week to read one portion of the account? Maybe it's attending our Maundy Thursday or Good Friday service? Maybe it's reading some brief prayers (see link below)? Maybe it means scheduling in a brief family devotion on Easter Sunday between the baskets and meal prep? One or more of these might really change our understanding of God's sacrificial love us.
Let's not fast forward through the good news of Easter.
*For some good, brief Easter Prayers: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/scotty-smith/