So, today is Ash Wednesday. To be honest, this was always a confusing day to me. I would always wonder why the church would be so excited to celebrate a day that hailed as its mascot a bowl of ashes. Only over the last few years have I come to love and appreciate this day and the season it starts. Ash Wednesday is a day to reflect, repent and to truly be sorrowful for our sinful condition. And really throughout the rest of Lent, this is and should be our main focus. Taking this time to really step to the side and reflect on the condition of our lives and know that without the intervention of Christ, we would be in one heap of trouble. But, that's the beauty of Ash Wednesday and Lent. It's actually a celebration of weakness! A celebration based on the fact that we don't have the power in ourselves to overcome, but we know the source of such power. That all our focus is to prepare ourselves over these next few days to rejoice in our resurrected savior Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 12:9-10
"9But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong."
The fact that we can brag about being weak is awesome to me. It is through our weaknesses that Christ is illuminated and made known to the world around us. So, as we celebrate our weaknesses this Lenten season we do so only because it is through the provision of Christ that we can go forward.
Today is a day for repentance and self-reflection. Make sure you take time today to take a knee or sit in your favorite chair, lift your eyes to heaven and truly pour your heart out to the Lord. Let that moment begin a journey for you for the next 40 days as we await the resurrected Christ.
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