Ash Wednesday

 Now, therefore,” says the Lord, “Turn to Me with all your heart, With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning. So, rend your heart, and not your garments; Return to the Lord your God, For He is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness - Joel 2:12, 13. 

                   The first day of the lent is the Ash Wednesday and the season of Lent is all about repentance. Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord - Acts 3:19. Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me - Psalm 51:10. Return to Me, and I will return to you - Malachi 3:7.

        Let us turn to God with all our heart in prayer, fasting and sharing. Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful - Colossians 4:2. Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes - Daniel 9:3.  You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land - Deuteronomy 15:11. 

           Let us examine ourselves and go deeper with God in this season of lent. For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But let each one examine his own work, and then he will have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another - Galatians 6:3, 4. Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties - Psalm 139:23. Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ - 2 Peter 3:18.

                                                        

PRAYER: Dear Lord, Let us repent and grow more in the grace and knowledge of You in this season of lent. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.