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and Death.
Ash Wednesday,
February 9
Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane; and he said to
his disciples, “Sit here, while I go over there and pray.” Matthew 26:36.
Jesus asks us just to stay awake world. We are not only asking God
and to focus our vision on Him. Will to cover up our marks on the world
we be ready when God calls us? but we are also asking God to give
us another chance to see Him.
Jesus warns us that we will never
know when we will run into God When we fast, we are training our
because God is always with us. On bodies to spend more time with
Ash Wednesday, we were invited to God. Instead of eating, we take the
work on seeing God through the time to encounter God through
practice of: repenting, fasting, prayer, worship, and service.
praying, and working for others.
Each of these actions provides us In our prayers, we are asking God
with new ways to see God. to change us into God's image of a
human. One that not only serves
When we ask God to forgive our God and neighbor, but also one
sin, we acknowledge to God that that walks with God in the cool of
our actions have not been true to the evening.
the way that God envisions the
In our service for others, we are power. For some of us, it will take
doing the will of God. When we time before we realize that God
give of our time and talents to our was with us. We will be like Jacob
neighbors, we are seeing God's and remember our encounter with
image in them. God. For others of us, we will know
God immediately. We will be like
In addition to these Lenten Moses at the Burning Bush or like
disciplines, we also meet God in the psalmist who sees God in the
worship. Jesus has promised to House of the LORD. And for others
come when we are of us, we will not
gathered in His know that we
Name. God has gave Jesus food
promised to send the and water, gave
Holy Spirit to us in Him clothing,
the Sacrament of and visited Him
Baptism. Jesus is in prison and in
with us when we sickness until we
celebrate His meal. see Him in
Heaven.
The only way that we will know
when we see God is by God’s own