I can’t believe I’ve been blogging for over a year. Now I can bear the fruits of doing it for over a year. I posted a blog last year on Ash Wednesday, and so now, I just cut and paste. You may call it cheating, I call it efficiency:
Today is Ash Wednesday. What is Ash Wednesday? It’s the first day of Lent. That means there are 40 days before Easter Sunday (not counting Sundays).
Traditionally, churches have a service on Ash Wednesday and the participants are “imposed” with ashes marked on their forehead (in the form of a cross). Usually a Scripture is used from Ecclesiastes 3:20: “You’ve come from dust, and to dust you will return.” It’s a day that we remember that we are mortal. That we are nothing without the breath of God. We are just dust and we’re going to die. And yet, it’s a day that we remember and eagerly anticipate the resurrection of Easter, the good news that because we are in need of a Savior, Christ is risen. The ash represents mortality, the cross represents hope.
On this day, and for the next 40 days, remember your mortality and your need for God … so, that when Easter comes, you will celebrate what God has done for you.
I’m reminded of an incredible song:
Come Walk Among Us by Michael Hansen
Come walk among us
Come walk among us, Jesus
You know that we need You
You know that we need You, JesusYou see our hearts, you know that we’re but dust
It’s You who made us, Lord it’s in You we choose to trust
Come Lord, come LordCopyright © 1995 Mercy/Vineyard Publishing. All rights reserved. International copyright secured.
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