Ash Wednesday

Meditations in the Season of Lent

March 5, 2025

Ash Wednesday

Psalm 51:7- 10 - Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice. Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity. Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the season of Lent. Lent is a 40-day season (not counting Sundays) marked by repentance, fasting, reflection, and ultimately celebration. The 40-day period represents Christ’s time of temptation in the wilderness, where he fasted and where Satan tempted him. The season of Lent calls us to set aside time for fasting and prayer to focus on Christ’s life, ministry, sacrifice, and resurrection.

My meditations for the Season of Lent will be drawn from the Epistles of James and First Peter. Additionally, I recommend these topics for your own devotional time:

1-    Think about your place in God's creation, and how you came to be where you are.

2-    Consider the sins that have led you to the foot of the cross

3-    Prepare for Easter: Consider the promise of resurrection, and how you can live out God's love for the world

4-    Consider how God loves us even in our state of brokenness, and how we can surrender to his desire to transform us

5-    Consider how you are vulnerable to sickness, sin, and death, and how trusting in God's work through Christ sustains you.

My Takeaway: As we walk through Lent, the night is dark, but there is a Light which has overcome the darkness. He is the Light of the World - he will illuminate our pathway as we place our trust in him.

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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