We're half way through Lent now, and I've seen the usual facebook posts and heard from friends who are missing chocolate or caffeine or whatever it is they've given up.
I
asked my husband if I should give up tea, to which he replied "no way,
it'll be too hard......for me". It's true I don't move from HQ (my bed)
until I've had a cuppa, but I kind of thought the whole point of Lent
was to forego the things we would miss, and at the point we're about to
combust because we haven't had our sugar rush or caffeine fix or
whatever it might be, we turn to God and spend that time in thankful
prayer!
I've never given anything up for Lent, so thought it would just be silly to start this year (I don't think God minds!)
But
I heard an interesting Lent story this week about a man who had given
up 'fear of people' for Lent! He had decided that throughout Lent,
whatever he felt led by the Holy Spirit to do, he would step out and do
it without fear! My first thought was I'd get to day 40 and sheepishly
glance upwards and wonder why I hadn't been asked to do anything!
One
thing this guy did was to go to the cinema and see Les Mis, he really
felt he had a message for the people who would be there and had been
prompted by God to step out of his comfort zone and face his fears, so
before the film started he announced to the audience, "this film is
about forgiveness and redemption and if you want to know true
forgiveness you really should meet Jesus!" Ballsy or what?!
It
made me wonder if I'd missed a trick when I went to see Die-Hard,
should I have perhaps stood in front of the whole cinema and announced
"this film is about.......well who cares really, but there's a great car
chase, lots of shoot outs and Bruce Willis dangles from a jeep which
dangles from a helicopter, falls about 100 feet through many plate glass
windows and lives! But if you want to know true eternal life, you have
to meet with Jesus! Yippee ki yay!"
follow for follow? :)
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