A year ago I was challenging myself to spend 4 weeks on each of 6 different spiritual disciplines. I got something out of doing that, so I decided I’d do something similar this year – not giving anything up but using the time to refocus on God.
So, my challenge which I am setting myself is to write a post a day from Ash Wednesday until Easter. There will be a mixture of scripture based posts, looking at films or music, or just general observations. But, if I can find the discipline, there will be 40 of them. And they will all point to God in some way, shape or form. Because that is the reason for this blog, to show the reason I don’t give up, the reason I always have hope no matter what is going on. Its because I trust in God, that there is a bigger picture than I can see, that there is a longer term plan than I can comprehend.
That doesn’t mean I never ask questions, or that I accept and understand everything I see going on around me. It means that when I do ask questions, when I do see things that make no sense, I have something to fall back on to remind me to look up and to let go. When you read the bible you find a whole load of things that don’t make sense in isolation, but somehow things turn out alright in the end, the bigger picture is one of love and salvation. And the bible reminds me not to just look at now, but to put it in the context of eternity (which, if I’m honest, is something small brain struggles with…)
So as time draws closer to Easter, I am going to do what I can to focus on the fact that Jesus came and walked among us out of love, because he wanted to make a way for us to be with God in eternity. Will you walk with me?
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