Lent invites you to take a longer look at Jesus on the Cross.
This season, we invite you take time to consider Confession as a way to fully understand the choices you are making.
Naming and owning your sin is uncomfortable (and that’s putting it lightly). But as you’ll hear, confessing sin plays a vital role to your relationship with God.
Before we get started, let’s pray: “Lord, I confess I can’t fully see the death and destruction that come from my sin. Many times, I don’t want to see it. Have mercy on my body and on my impulses. Change me through the resurrection of Jesus. Make me a new creation.”
Let’s begin.
Highlights:
Sin is a violation of who we are and who we are in relationship with God.
By avoiding our sin, we have forgotten the reality of what sin does to us, how quickly it moves into us and through us.
“Don’t you realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God.” -James 4:4
Act of Contrition (Inspired by the Gospels, from the Vatican)
Father of mercy, like the prodigal son I return to you and say: “I have sinned against you and am no longer worthy to be called your child.”
Christ Jesus, Savior of the world, I pray with the repentant thief to whom you promised Paradise: “Lord, remember me in your kingdom.”
Holy Spirit, fountain of love, I call on you with trust: “Purify my heart, and help me to walk as a child of light.”
If you want to learn more, check out Josh’s latest writing on this topic at, If You Don’t Need Mercy
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