“8
But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in
your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach): 9 that
if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your
heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10
For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the
mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11 For the Scripture says,
“Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.” 12 ¶ For
there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over
all is rich to all who call upon Him. 13 For “whoever calls on the
name of the LORD shall be saved.”” (Romans 10:8-13 NKJV)
We
are starting our journey through Lent to Holy Week and then Easter.
Lent reminds us shortcuts in life in reality lead to eternal death
and calls us to the journey of life.
Each
have our Before Christ time (BC) and by grace God can lead us to our
Anno Domini (AD) which is the year of the Lord, our salvation.
Lent
can begin by remembering who we were during our BC days and what
called us God. There are many different BC times in our lives and
how we were led by God through the transition from BC to AD. We grow
in our awe how helpless and completely unable we were to recognize
our need as well as trusting God through Jesus to receive transition
through salvation.
For
those who still are in a BC existence Lent can be a time to not only
discover their need to seek forgiveness through Jesus to put an end
to their BC existence and begin their AD life! They now begin their
journey from their worship at the manger, their journey to the cross
and then to experience through the resurrection of Jesus the promise
our journey leads to LIFE!
Over
and over year after year we journey the heart of our AD life and are
reminded of our desperate need to be saved and of the grace of God to
offer us life! Year after year our love is deepened and our journey
more joyous as we experience the deepness of God's forgiveness and
our unworthiness.
If
Lent loses it meaning we not only miss the growing understanding of
God's undeserved goodness to us but we can fall back into the BC
existence!
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