Lead Me To The Cross

Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of the Lenten Season.  What I really enjoy about today are the worship opportunities available to go and be humbled with other people of God.  Lent is all about humbling.  Lent is about realizing other people come before you.  Lent is about understanding that the poor will be rich and the last will be first.  

Repentance is a beautiful and wonderful thing.  I say that like that because I feel as though repentance has been misunderstood or gets a bad rap.  The Greek word for repentance is "metanoia."  It means to "have a change of heart, turning from one's sins, to change one's ways."

It is about humbling yourself before a God who sent His only Son on His own Lenten journey. We are human, admitting we have faults is a no brainer and it is therapeutic, because following repentance is the glorious proclamation of the forgiveness of sins.  THAT never gets old, it only gets sweeter and sweeter each time it is proclaimed.  Follow Jesus to Jerusalem this Lent.

Readings:

Jonah 3:1-4:11

Hebrews 12:1-14

Luke 18:9-14