A Note from Pastor Tim . . .
How is your journey through Lent going?
I suspect that for some of us, it has been a truly spiritual journey, walking, talking, and growing closer to Jesus. The spiritual disciplines that you have added (or things that you have subtracted/given up during Lent) are helping you form your inner life. You are walking closer with Jesus, growing spiritually more and more.
I also know that there are many of us, when Lent started a few weeks ago, had good intentions to renew our spiritual journey and walk closer with Jesus, but up to now, nothing has changed. Life got in the way with interruptions and distractions, or we just forgot, so your journey with Jeus is not different than before.
Let me encourage you at this mid-point of Lent to return to the journey. Don’t think that you have to try harder or work at being disciplined, start by asking the Holy Spirit to walk with you. Ask the Holy Spirit to renew a desire of walking closer with Jesus. That would be a good next step.
Our journeys with Christ will always have peaks and valleys. Times where we are walking close with Jesus and times when we are feeling distant but know that the Spirit never leaves us. Walk humbly with the Spirit and He will draw us closer to Jesus.
Have a great rest of the week and I will see you on Sunday.