How was your first Lenten weekend? I have some reflection questions for you: Did you see, hear, or feel God? Where? How? What did you do? How can you use that encounter today on your Lenten journey back to God?
Did you wear your armor? Did you use your sword (words of God)? Have you experienced or witnessed spiritual warfare? How did you react?
Lent Day #6 Take a Dive
Reading and being able to read is so important. A book is one of those gifts that keeps on giving. They take you on journeys. They grow those brain cells and give you an escape from the world around you. When I was a teacher in the classroom, I loved sharing books with my classes. I remember my formative years, especially the first 9 years at Holice Powell. Each level I gained essential knowledge to become educated, academically, emotionally, socially, and morally. Fourth grade I fell in love with chapter books because of Mrs. Boals. She read to us every day after lunch. Oh, the places we went and morals we learned from the Prairie of Minnesota to Zukerman’s farm to the colonial settlements in India we ventured and my love for words still remains today. We didn’t call words, we immersed ourselves into the story. We journeyed with Laura, Charlotte, and Ricki-Ticki-Tavy fighting though the plot with the characters. This is how I want you to experience and explore and educate yourself in the Bible this Lent.
When you read and study this 40 days of Lent we have to sharpen our “sworos” now and forever more. Let’s take a dive.
Matthew 6:7-15
The Lord’s Prayer 7 “When you pray do not go on babbling endlessly as the pagans do, for they believe that they are more likely to be heard because of their many words. 8 Do not imitate them. Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
9 “This is how you should pray:
‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
10
Your kingdom come.
Your will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
11
Give us this day our daily bread.
12
And forgive us our debts
as we forgive our debtors.
13
And do not lead us into temptation,[b]
but deliver us from the evil one.’
14 If you forgive others for the wrongs they have done, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive your transgressions.
First, put yourself there. What is he saying, teaching?
How do I pray? Reverence. This is THE FATHER OF ALL CREATION. Feel the smallness of yourself and the gratitude for His consideration of my little particles of matter housing a spark of the Eternal Divine.
Use your own words from your heart. Be honest, plain, and direct. Dearest Father you know when I lie, slander, and sin. God I know I am not worthy of your forgiveness but you give it joyfully. Forgive me Lord, but also help me love and forgive like you. Create a sincere heart and tongue to forgive and speak love to mend the division of your children. Father all I need to utter is forgive me and it is done. Thank you Father, in the name of your Son Jesus I pray, Amen
Sharpen your Swords!
Sal the Deep Diving Gal
Sarah Anderson Alley
Quotes of the Day:
1. “For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.” Hebrews 4:12
2.“I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.”― Abraham Lincoln
3.“The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.”― Augustine of Hippo
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