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LENT
ARRIVES
AGAIN
Why
did God plant that tree in As
hurtful as our transgressions can be, either to ourselves or to others,
there can be no life journey without them or the risk they involve.
Sometimes the only way to move forward is to “take a bite of the
apple” and to suffer the consequences.
We should never fear that God will strike us down for decisions we
make or actions we take but we should always understand that there are
consequences. Paul said, “A
man reaps what he sows (Gal.6:7).” Consequences
are built into all actions and decisions, good or bad.
Punishment is usually unnecessary.
Our suffering, or the suffering we cause, is not from God, it is
from ourselves. Lent is that time we take to review our lives and to
reassess the direction of our journey.
We consider our transgressions against God, our neighbor, and
ourselves, but will hear no actual absolution or words of forgiveness in
worship until they are spoken at the end of Holy Week.
That old tradition in the church allows Christians to sufficiently
“wonder, hesitate and question” who we are, before God – who knows
very well that by nature we are inclined to evil, to doing, thinking and
saying some very defiant things – until we hear our own Lord’s
absolution from the Cross, when he prays, “Father forgive them, they
know not what they do.”
Fr. Bruce Evenson
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