Psalm 51:2-5
"Sinner"
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2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!
3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.
4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in thy sight, so that thou art justified in thy sentence and blameless in thy judgment.
5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Grace and peace to you from our Lord and Saviour Jesus who is the Christ. Amen
Ash Wednesday begins our Lenten journey. A journey that leads us through the season of Lent, to Maundy Thursday and Good Friday and then finally to the Easter Resurrection.
Along this journey will see the grace and love that God has for us through His son Jesus Christ. A love that transforms us into what God had intended for us to be all along.
And part of that journey needs us to realize who we are. We are not gods, we are not perfect, we are not what God intended for us to be. We are sinners.
On this Ash Wednesday we need to realize just that fact. We are sinners in need of God's grace. Without God we are nothing.
Someone once said:
The difference between God and us is seen in the mud. God molded the mud,blew on it and created life. We mold the mud, blow on it, and end up with---mud. We like to play God. We like to pretend that we are as wise and powerful as God. But we still end up with mud.
We still end up with lives that fall short of God's expectation of us.
We need to be as honest with ourselves as the writer of the Psalm as he says:
3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.
The ashes of Ash Wednesday remind of our sinfulness before God.
A pastor wrote:
" The first thing the ashes of Ash Wednesday remind us of is WHO we are. As the sign of the cross is traced on your head, the first mark is in the shape of a capital "I." An "I" that stands for someone who is uniquely "me." Me with all my strengths and weaknesses. With all my talents and all my sins.
It's the "I" that also separates me from God. The capital "I" that forms part of the cross etched into my forehead is also the "I" that stands in the middle of my "sin"
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