What ways do you honor God? Today you may be like many people walking around the city with a cross of burned palms on your head, I know I am. What does it really mean though? Why did you wake up this morning and think, "I better get my ashes today"? Was it just habit? Where was your heart today and where will it be for these next 40 days of Lent?
I'm writing these questions because I am not entirely sure that I myself have answers to them. I'm not sure that there are right or wrong answers but they are questions that are necessary on this day of reflection and sober thought.
Since 2010 has started I have been on a personal journey to discover the answers to some of these questions and above and beyond these questions, the ultimate question is looming...what does it mean to be a follower? What does it mean to follow Christ? The only thing I have learned is that it means an inward surrender. It means to realize that your life is not your own, to know that your plans for your life aren't nearly as great as His. It means to consider every thought you have and every word you say and to question whether the Holy Spirit approves. It means to think about his actions, his death for us when we didn't deserve it. It means to think about what it living with that knowledge, hope and love.
My hope for everyone during this season of Lent and beyond is that we can search ourselves for the thing that makes us who we are. That we can search ourselves for the ability to be a follower. That we can be a follower from the inside out, changing our thought life and then our outside. I hope that today the outward symbol on our heads is just the beginning of the revolution beginning to occur inside our spirit's.
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