Psalm 97 • Exodus 20:1-17 • Romans 7:13-25 • John 2:13-22
As we continue our journey through Lent we are confronted with failure. Repentance is an acknowledgment, usually after the fact but possibly before, that we have failed. We failed to live up to a standard set for us or by us. We failed to live like we intended. We failed to be that which we have desired to be. We failed to see God by God’s reference point rather than ours. Failure requires repentance, a reorientation to what is true about God.
“The problem isn’t sinning, nearly as much as our unwillingness to admit that we have sinned, or at least as Jesus does, to engage honestly with darkness and our capacity for evil.”
As we journey through Lent we are confronted with deliverance. Like Noah through waters of the flood and Israel through the Red Sea and the believers through baptism, we are delivered through as much as from.
