Last night Brad Daugherty from Blakemore Church of the Nazarene gave a great message for the Ash Wednesday service. He challenged us to recognize that it is not 'in-spite-of' our frailty, weakness and mortality that Christ is made present, but rather it is a much higher calling. A recognition that it is 'within' our frailty, weakness and mortality that Christ is revealed.
It is a humble place to stand.
This is where we find ourselves in the season of lent.
On these 40 days that represent Christ's 40 days of fasting in the desert.
On these 40 days leading up to Easter.
We recognize that:
From dust we came, and to dust we shall return
We serve a Savior that was crucified and dead
We are weak and frail, completely and utterly unable to be who and what we should
AND... that that is where Christ comes and becomes present to us and in us.
IN our weakness
IN our frailty
IN our finite mortality
Try accepting that for Lent.
