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March 10,2019 First Sunday in Lent
“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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