My Vision of Agreeing With God About Sin-Lent 12, 2020

Prayer Focus: Gaining a more biblical view of my own sin

Holy Father, Almighty God, You have every right to be repulsed by human sin and to find sin offensive to Your holiness and perfection. You are always righteous in everything You do and I need Your help to see my sins as You see them. May Your Holy Spirit teach me the gravity of the sins which seem small on a human comparison level, but are amplified by my committing them against, not just man, but my eternal God and Savior. If my sins were not a big deal, Jesus wouldn’t need to have died for them. Help me to see this is the cost of even the tiniest transgression. In You is all Truth and Wisdom, all Love and Mercy, all Perfection now and forever more. Remind me that You are also forgiving when I condemn myself over my sins…and that there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. I thank You for Your mercy and the forgiveness You purchased for me by the blood of Your Son Jesus. Thank You that Jesus bore all the wrath against sin, and I am forever grateful He forgives the sins I have committed. I’m sorry for the weight of sin I contributed to the wrath He bore for humankind. Thank You that even though my sins are like scarlet, they have been washed white as snow in the cleansing blood of Christ and by His forgiveness, my sins are removed as far as east is from the west. Thank You, Lord, for the assurance in Your Word. I praise You, Lord. I thank You for Your mercy. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

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Lent 2013 looked at The Letter to the Romans: Paul’s Masterpiece to reclaim foundations of our Christian heritage and began February 13, 2013.
A very special and ever popular offering was Lent 2014’s Be Still and Know that I AM God which can be obtained through the archives beginning in March 2014.
Lent 2015 began on February 18, 2015 with a series entitled With Christ in the Upper Room: Final Preparations. We explored what is often called “The Upper Room Discourse” found in John chapters 13-17.
ReKindle, the Lent 2016 series, began on February 10, 2016 and encouraged us to rekindle our spiritual lives.
Light: There’s Nothing Like It was the 2017 Lent series and explored this metaphor often used to portray Christ. It is archived beginning March 1, 2017.
Lent 2018, we explored the questions of Pi and Chi (the Greek letter beginning the word Christos, which means Christ, Messiah, the Anointed One). We asked and answered the questions “Why?” from the movie Life of Pi as we discovered the uniqueness of Jesus Christ in a world of many faiths.
Lent 2019 gave us a deeper window into Easter “More to the Easter Story” since we miss so much when we rely only on a superficial understanding of the work of Christ. These devotionals are archived beginning March 6, 2019.