I wrote about grace yesterday, almost one year to the day, I wrote nearly the exact same thing. Weird huh? I think what happens is that when we get close to Easter my heart is drawn to thinking about what took place that first Easter.
That first Easter a moment that changed the course of history. An act of total sacrifice. An act that ended not in death, but in life. The resurrection, the reversal of the fall. The beginning of the reconciliation of all things.
Reconciliation. What a word. It is one of those words that makes us uncomfortable. It is a word that demands action. You can’t sit on it and just do nothing.
Every year Lent rolls around and our Facebook feeds are filled with people giving stuff up. We give up chocolate, beers, maybe even Facebook itself. It’s a time when we seek to deny ourselves to prepare for Easter.
What good does it do?
We have 40 days until the ultimate act of reconciliation. What might happen if we prepared for Easter by seeking out those we need reconciliation with? What if we gave grace and received it? What if we acted on our call to be reconciled to man and God?
Could you imagine every year Christians pursuing reconciliation for 40 days?
That just might change everything.
You have 40 days, how will use it?
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