Tonight in Kaleo chapel, we had a service for lent... Woody talked about our sins and how we ask for forgivenss like we go through a drivethrough... quick and easy. But the thing is, God forgives us just like that, quick and easy. But what do we give back to Him? ...the creator of our lives and sometimes we fit in a prayer here of there or read a few words of scripture... quick and easy right?! But is that how I really wanna live my life? do i really want to make God just a quick and easy task?
Tonight we talked about lent and what we are going to give up until easter. I thought about it for a little and decided to give up soda and sweets... but how easy right?! I feel that most of us give up something that will just benefit ourselves and not our Heavenly Father. I feel that many people are giving up things that will make their body healthier or making their day easier but WHY do we have lent? to make our lives easier?! NO. but to give back what we don't even deserve to the Lord. SO by the end of Kaleo, I decided to give up something that I have been holding onto for a long time... something that I want more than anything to hold onto... something that only benefits myself. Every time I thought about giving something up for 40 days, this came to my mind, but I pushed it aside because I knew that it would NOT benefit me in any way. But then as the service came to an end, i realized that we are put on this earth for so much more than our well-being and we are put on this earth not so that we can make quick and easy decisions but decisions and changes that benefit God. I know that this will NOT be easy for me but lately I have realized that through God, anything is possible... through prayer, miracles can happen.
Tonight we talked about lent and what we are going to give up until easter. I thought about it for a little and decided to give up soda and sweets... but how easy right?! I feel that most of us give up something that will just benefit ourselves and not our Heavenly Father. I feel that many people are giving up things that will make their body healthier or making their day easier but WHY do we have lent? to make our lives easier?! NO. but to give back what we don't even deserve to the Lord. SO by the end of Kaleo, I decided to give up something that I have been holding onto for a long time... something that I want more than anything to hold onto... something that only benefits myself. Every time I thought about giving something up for 40 days, this came to my mind, but I pushed it aside because I knew that it would NOT benefit me in any way. But then as the service came to an end, i realized that we are put on this earth for so much more than our well-being and we are put on this earth not so that we can make quick and easy decisions but decisions and changes that benefit God. I know that this will NOT be easy for me but lately I have realized that through God, anything is possible... through prayer, miracles can happen.
"Lent is a time when many people turn their gaze toward Good Friday and ask themselves, 'How dare I force someone who loves me this much to go through something this awful?' Perhaps they see the Cross and ask, 'Lord, what can I do to stop doing this to You? How can I love you better?' Many times in the Gospels, Jesus called on people to repent, to turn away from doing evil. So the first impulse of love is to try to do things that Jesus would want of you."
"But then, that's why He did what He did, something only He could do. All we can do is collapse at Jesus' feet. And trust Him. We can't get there from here, but He can. He will take us, and the Holy Spirit will lead us along that road. Through the Spirit, we can love God better. The Bible tells us much of what we need to know, and other believers (also led by the Spirit) can also help. Christ gives us His body and His blood His presence among us and with us and in us. Knowing that, we can stand ready for Holy Week."
"Let the morning bring me word of Your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way i should go, for to you I lift up my soul." Psalms 143:8
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