1. God's purification is not color safe bleach. It does not exclude areas of your life that you wish to keep as they were. God's work in you is like straight up bleach. Every part of your life, whether you like it or not, will be affected by God's purification and in the end, He will have worked to scourge every dark corner of your life of yourself so that you can be as white as snow.
At least, this is how it should be if we let God do His full work in our lives. Admittedly, we tend to guard those colored spots of our lives till our last breath, literally.
2. "And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him." Hebrews 11:6. I look at this I what I see is that faith is the springboard into your relationship with God. Without faith, you can't possibly start.
And then later on, it says that love is the greatest out of faith, hope, and love. Meaning that faith leads us into this relationship with God, from whence we can learn to love, which is even greater than the initial step, the springboard of faith.
3. Lent is also something of a springboard, I think. Especially in cases where we give up things that aren't helpful to our growth as Christians, I think we should consider continuing in giving them up after lent. Like wasting time playing games. Maybe I should consider continuing to greatly reduce that time that could be used for more constructive means. I just feel like sometimes we give up bad habits, but go right back to them after forty days. Where's the sense in that?
3 thoughts should be enough.
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