Lenten Devotions: Introduction

In his new devotional Paul Tripp writes, “It’s good to mourn, it’s healthy to be sad, and it’s appropriate to groan. Something is wrong with us, something is missing in our hearts and our understanding of life, if we are able to look around and look inside and not grieve. You don’t have to look very far to see that we live, work, and relate in a world that has been twisted by sin, so much that it doesn’t function at all in the way God intended…. Mourning sin – past, present and future – is the first step in seeking and celebrating the divine grace that is the hope of everyone whose heart has been made able to see by that very same grace. So it is right and beneficial to take a season of the year to reevaluate, recalibrate, and have the values of our hearts clarified once again. Lent is such a season.”

From now until Easter that is what this devotional space will pursue. Each day there will be a reading of some sort that will focus upon a certain aspect of that calibration, reevaluation and clarification. Lent is forty days long. Each Sunday will be treated separately as an introduction to the coming weeks theme. We will consider each Sunday like a mini-Easter as we move towards the great celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. May this time that you set aside be a rich blessing.

(Tomorrow’s reading is a bit long but so worth the time)