Featured Favorite: The promise of Lent and the grace of Eastertide
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The one who began a good work in you will continue to complete it until the day of Christ Jesus. (Philippians 1:6)
As the end of Lent nears, we see how far we have come. And we see how far we have to go to become the holy children of God he created us to be.
God began a good work in us on Ash Wednesday and inspired us to launch out into the deep of many unknowns. The unknown of our capacity to make the change he inspired in us. The unknown of our perseverance and the strength of our expectant faith.
What is not unknown now is that new sureness inside us that we are growing spiritually. Whatever the outcome of our Lenten resolutions, something in our spirit is urging us on to continue to coöperate with the grace poured out on us during these 40 days and abounding even more during Eastertide.
Perhaps it is the grace to continue with new devotion, more consistent prayer time, or additional time spent pursuing spiritual wisdom or before the Blessed Sacrament. It could be a new appreciation of chocolate or television we denied ourselves that we will always enjoy more because of our sacrifice this Lent.
Perhaps. like me, you found freedom in abandoning yourself to loving God in new expressions such as journaling and evangelizing. Awareness of a weakness you hadn’t recognized before can bring the resolve to coöperate with God in strengthening your faith. With the Lord’s help and grace, you will be victorious rather than backslide.
We are growing up in the Lord! Let us now look forward to the Easter season and all the beauty, glory and new life springing up around us. And praise God for the beauty, glory and new life budding in our souls.
The one who began a good work in you will continue to complete it until the day of Christ Jesus. (Philippians 1:6)
What good work that God began in you during Lent will you continue after Easter?
© 2013, revised 2022, Nancy H C Ward)
