Originating in the fourth century of the church, the season of Lent spans 40 weekdays beginning on Ash Wednesday and climaxing during Holy Week with Holy Thursday (Maundy Thursday), Good Friday, and concluding Saturday before Easter.
Lent is a season of soul-searching and repentance. It is a season for reflection and introspection. Lent originated in the very earliest days of the Church as a preparatory time for Easter, when Christians rededicated themselves to God.Perhaps during this Lenten season we should stop praying for others and start praying and fasting for ourselves. Maybe we should take off our righteous robes just long enough during this 40 days to put ashes on our own heads, to come before God with a new humility that is willing to confess, "Lord, be merciful to me, a sinner."
My plea in these 40 days of Lent is that we would hunger for God with the same kind of intensity that we hunger for food. Let the Fasting begin.
Pastor Larry
"Lord, in my hand no price I bring; simply to the cross I cling."
