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How’s Lent going for you? Have you fallen out of the saddle yet?
If you’ve already succumbed to the chocolate you resolved to give up or you’ve missed out your daily reading, all is not lost. In fact, you may be learning two spiritual lessons in this week’s Bible readings that you’d have missed in six weeks proudly spent without chocolate.
The first is from St Paul: that God’s fatherly love has a core of grace and faithfulness. We don’t earn it by obeying rules.
And the second from Christ himself: God sent Christ to save us, not condemn us.
Does that mean we give up our attempts at self-discipline? No, there’s still time to get back into our Lent saddles. But recognise that it is God giving us a lift up. And the saddle is not on a magnificent stallion but a humble donkey.
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Collect
Almighty God,
by the prayer and discipline of Lent
may we enter into the mystery of Christ’s sufferings,
and by following in his Way
come to share in his glory;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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