You get a forehead of ashes that kids think are cool. My friend Micah loaded me up last week as we began lent. What is funny is how students and adults came up to me and wished their ashes were as dark as mine. There is a coolness to the cross, when you are in Christ. May we live our lives that way too. Leaving people wanting what we've got. I pray that God would make us irresistible to the lost.
I have used the word "compelling" a great deal in the last couple years. i.e. we should compel people to come to God's house. But we should take heed that we don't think that God needs us to make him sexy to the world. John says that the Father will lift up the son for the world to see. May we live so that our eyes are open to the the power of our Holy God, and that our need for him opens the eyes of others. I need God and relationship with him. I, like you, am not good, but while I was a sinner, Christ went to the cross and shed blood that made me clean and gave me that which I need most: GOD. Our existance here is about that and that alone. That we glorify God. May your ash be dark and compelling! May your love be up and out!
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