Today is Ash Wednesday. As I have helped faciltate our community gatherings today to celebrate and remember this day and the beginning of Lent, I have repeatedly said, "From dust you have come and to dust you will return."
At first glance this phrase from Genesis 3 (v. 19b to be exact) seems rather morbid.
Why would you want to tell people they will eventually die and turn back into dust?!
But when we take time to reflect a little deeper on this phrase, and we set it in the context of the larger season of Lent, we can see the real beauty behind it.
One of the things I love the most about this season, this day, and the marking of ashes in particular, is the powerful reminder it is that God is God and I am not!
I am temporal.
He is Eternal.
I am problem.
He is Solution.
I am broken.
He is redemption.
So go ahead and mark me with the ashes, beccause they are just a symbol of who I am in light of Who He is!
And I am not afraid to show that.
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