Category: Lent

Lent 2022 | 2nd Sunday in Lent: Celebrate!

Every Sunday in Lent gives us an opportunity to look back over where we have been in the previous week. Throughout this series, each Sunday will focus on a particular aspect of the grace of God. It can be easy for us to think about God’s grace, and think that we understand it. The truth is God’s grace is always more profound than we can imagine.

Therefore, each of the Sundays we’re striving to make sense of one characteristic of God’s grace. By focusing in this way maybe we can deepen our appreciation for what God has provided for us. The sacrifice of Jesus is more than just a “get out of hell free” card. The redemption purchased by the shed blood of Christ is the restoration of our relationship with God himself.

Today we’re going to focus on the wonder of God’s grace.

I think it’s helpful to take the time and ask: what does the word wonder mean?

The sacrifice of Jesus is more than just a “get out of hell free” card. The redemption purchased by the shed blood of Christ is the restoration of our relationship with God himself.

A cursory search for a definition of the word wonder provides this from Merriam-Webster’s dictionary.

  • 1. “A cause of astonishment or admiration: Marvel”; miracle.
  • 2. The quality of exciting amazed admiration.
  • 3. A. Rapt attention or astonishment at something awesomely mysterious or new to one’s experience; B. A feeling of doubt or uncertainty.

These are interesting flavors of the word wonder. The one that stands out as being most closely described in Scripture is the second one. “The quality of exciting amazed admiration.”

When we think about God’s grace, it should elicit in us excitement, amazement, and admiration. Not in some sequential way but all at once. Like the crashing of a wave on the shore. Were sound and effect occur at the same time.

God’s grace is something that cannot be adequately defined. There are many who have tried. And at best those could be described as approximations of the truth. That is not to say those attempts have no value. As a matter of fact, they help us to get closer to what we should know and understand about God’s grace.

What I think is challenging when we try to define God’s grace is that we try to make a connection between what grace is and what we have learned through our experiences in life. And again, there is nothing inherently wrong with that. But these attempts only give us the impression that we know what God’s grace is.

In recent years, instead of trying to describe grace as something we can know, I’ve done my best to talk about it as something we must experience. It’s not something that can be simulated. It’s not something that can be shared with others through words or images. It’s not something that we can approximate.

The best we can do is invite them to journey with God just as we are doing. And to trust that God will remain faithful, not only to his word and promises but also to those who come to him honestly and with a genuine desire to find him.

The longer we live, the longer we walk with the Lord, the less concerned we should be with convincing others of the wonder of God’s grace. We should do all we can to live our lives according to what we claim to have experienced of God’s grace.

In this season of Lent let us rejoice not only in God’s grace but also in that he has been gracious to us.

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Lent 2022 | Day 10: Rise

Several years ago I decided that I would be sure to get one thing done every day. That task was to make my bed. It seems like a simple thing, and it is. But it has had far-reaching importance as I enter each day.

It can be difficult at times to determine the value of making a simple decision over and over again. What I have discovered is that as I have continued to rise each morning and make my bed I can continue with the rest of my day knowing I have accomplished at least one thing. It is small I will grant that, but it is something that has been accomplished.

Are there days when I forget? Yes. Not as many as there used to be. The idea of rising every day with the goal of achieving at least one thing has a positive effect on how you view the rest of the day. The idea is not to pat yourself on the back for having done it. But rather to acknowledge that regardless of what else may come in the day you have done something productive.

It can be difficult at times to determine the value of making a simple decision over and over again.

Some might argue that making your bed every morning does not qualify as productivity. But I would counter by pointing that that when we fail to set a positive outlook on the day, on any day for that matter, anything else we did not complete or had direct input over can set the agenda. And usually in a negative direction.

The idea of intentionality is key to living a life of peace. The kind of peace I have in mind is a sense of internal, resident peace. The sense of knowing we have done what we could. And that’s good enough.

It may seem odd to consider what we do in the first few moments of rising every morning as having a lasting effect on the rest of the day. But I think it is worth noting how the Scriptures encourage us to remember that God’s mercies are new every morning (Lamentations 3:22-23). I take this to mean God desires for us to begin each day contemplating and considering what he has done in our lives. To take it a step further we are encouraged to consider what God will continue to do in our lives.

The idea here is not to over-spiritualize the simple acts of everyday life. More to the point, we should normalize the ins and outs of everyday living as a part of the natural ebb and flow of a life lived with God. When we make everything spiritual nothing is spiritual. But when we embrace the reality that there is no need to spiritualize anything, we can begin to accept how everything we do “as unto the Lord” can become an act of worship. This may seem like a contradictory set of statements, but they are not.

When we recognize that everything we do before the Lord can be done to glorify him, we don’t have to “try” to make it glorify him. God being glorified becomes just the natural result of living. But when we try to make things “spiritual” what we have done is we have separated what God is doing in our lives into categories that may not necessarily reflect who God is.

This is not always easy to understand. But it is worth the effort to try.

In this season of Lent, as we continue our journey towards Easter morning, I think it would be worth our time to look at what we do as we rise every day to face the challenges that they might bring. In turn, I encourage you to pause, maybe before your feet hit the ground, and consider what will become of this new day God has prepared for and gifted to you.

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Lent 2022 | Day 9: Bless

The word bless is one we don’t use very much in our culture or in the church anymore. One of the reasons is we no longer have a clear understanding of its purpose. The idea of blessing is often attributed to what happens before a meal or after someone sneezes. But this is a radical diminishing of the purpose of the blessing.

When the Bible speaks about blessing it is calling us to be aware of a relationship. The relationship that is supposed to exist between God and his people. God desires to bless us because of who we become when we enter into a relationship with them. The promise of the gospel is that when we trust in Christ we are adopted into the family of God. And as a result of this God takes ownership and responsibility to care for us. In this care, we experience the kind of love that awakens us to the beauty and majesty of God himself.

The reality of our relationship with God is most clearly seen when we find ourselves feeling distant from him. When we sin or when we find ourselves falling short of what we desire to be we project those feelings onto God. But God is not hindered by our emotional fluctuations or our physical failures. As a matter of fact, what we do or get wrong does not affect God’s consistent character.

As we walk this life with God and with others we experience blessing when we are able to live out the fullness of what God has been putting within us. What I imagine this means is that when we embrace the transformation the gospel initiates, we no longer become conscious of what needs to be fixed. Rather we live out our lives in as normal a way as we can. In the same way that many of us have no consciousness of our breathing until we think about it, the Christian life can be just as normal. Where we’re living our lives embodying the fullness of the gospel’s promises without giving them much thought.

God is not hindered by our emotional fluctuations or our physical failures. As a matter of fact, what we do or get wrong does not affect God’s consistent character.

Spiritual maturity is evidenced by this instinctive living out of the gospel’s imperatives. When we are able to do what we believe in, in an almost instinctive manner, we have moved into a deeper understanding of the faith. Not because we have some academic proficiency but because we have internalized the fullness of God’s grace.

This is what it means to be blessed. Where there is this mindfulness of what is good and true. We were able to enjoy the simple and often times mundane realities of life. Where we can identify those moments where God’s grace punctuates the seemingly ordinary and makes it something more. It is in this transformed thinking that we see all that could be even when it is not realized in our lives.

In many ways, this is the hope of Easter morning. That what was only a potential hope has become a reality that is undeniable in our lives. But we’re not there yet. There is still some time before we can revel in the fullness of God’s glorious grace as celebrated on resurrection Sunday.

For now, we continue our journey through the season of Lent. Considering what is yet to come in the light of where we are. It can be challenging to pause and look and see what is happening to us and around us. But if we don’t take the time to reflect and consider what God is trying to do even now, we may very well end up missing how God is shaping us in the process of this journey.

Lent 2022 | Day 8: Call

I recently began rereading the book of the prophet Jeremiah. This book has been important in my development as a follower of Christ. The story of the prophet Jeremiah is interesting for a variety of reasons. The foremost of which is that for many his ministry may be described as a failure. And if that seems too harsh, we could say it was marked by lack of change among the people to whom he was sent. Jeremiah has been oftentimes given the moniker of “the weeping prophet”.

It seems odd that within the pages of Scripture we can read the story of the ministry of a man who was not able to elicit much noticeable change in the people whom he served. I find some comfort in knowing that faithful ministry will not necessarily lead to “successful” ministry. How we define what success really is can be a moving target. Therefore it becomes critical for us not to make a habit of comparing what God has called us to do with what others are doing.

This is at the center of our word focus for today. What does it mean to have a call on your life? The question itself is rife with nuance and even ambiguity. For me, the challenge is discerning what it means for God to use me in the greater scheme of his purposes, both in my life and in the world.

I find some comfort in knowing that faithful ministry will not necessarily lead to “successful” ministry.

It is worth the effort to try to define this idea of calling. The simplest way I believe to do so is to acknowledge it is an internal acceptance of our surrender to God’s will. Not to some specific task or to a particular mission, but in the sense of surrendering our own pursuits for the labors God will place in our hands. This is what it means to be called in my mind. That we no longer are striving to make a way according to our desires or preferences. Rather we are making an intentional effort to seek the mind of God for how we should conduct our lives.

To shift from a focus on our own ideas of what a meaningful life would be to accepting the journey God places us on gets us closer to what I believe a call is. It is difficult to be too specific because each person is unique. The gifts and passions and talents any individual person brings and offers to God are as varied as the number of people who have ever walked the face of the earth. And it is in this variety of human expression that some feel a particular drawing to participate in the completing (in the sense of being ambassadors of the kingdom) of God’s will. Not that any energy of hours is necessary or requisite to the work being done, but that we are willing to give of ourselves to be instruments in the hand of God.

This may seem to some a foolish way of engaging with God. And the sentiment is to be expected. To surrender our own desires and plans in order to serve a God we have never seen will appear quite foolish to some of those around us. But in our circle of influence, there will be those who recognize the irresistible drawing of God’s love and grace. And in this drawing away from the opportunities the world around us would provide there are many who find a deeper sense of fulfillment and satisfaction in the work God calls them to.

A calling can be difficult to define, or even to describe. But it is evident in those who have been called by their inability to let go of that impulse to forsake all other things in life and to give our gifts and talents to the work of God.

In the season of Lent, we too are being called. We all are being offered an opportunity to forsake the enticements of the world for a time. It is not a complete abandonment of the world in which we live. It is a momentary pause and intentional refraining from allowing ourselves to be engulfed by the multitudinous opportunities available to us.

I invite you to consider this time of Lent as a special call from God to look at the world around you and consider what in it may be drawing too much of your attention away from him. And then to take a moment to embrace the reality that God desires to have a deeper and abiding relationship with you. If this is something you desire, something you have wondered about but have been unable to determine how to access, I would say to make that desire to grow closer to God the primary focus of this season of reflection.

It’s never too late to start.

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Lent 2022 | Day 7: Everlasting

From everlasting to everlasting you are God.

Psalm 90:2 ESV

This is one of the more interesting descriptions of God in the Scriptures. One of the attributes of his being is that of eternality. What this describes is the idea that God has neither beginning nor end. But to our mind this concept of timelessness does not really make much sense. We can pretend to imagine what it means but we always struggle to make sense of it in its actuality.

The notion that God has no beginning and that he has no end is a key aspect of who he is. But often because it is so mysterious we struggle to see its significance. What is it that makes God’s eternality an important aspect of not only his being but also our understanding of his purposes in our lives?  The easiest way of thinking about this is to consider the fact that God’s timelessness affords him a freedom we do not possess and yet long time have.

when time ceases to be the idea of a moment will be erased. What we will be left with is an ever-present present. The very notions of past and future will cease. And what we will be left with is the intimacy of the immediate moment.

The freedom of God to be God, to not be encumbered by the effects of time, affords God the perspective on life and living unique to him. This is why when he discloses to us who he is and what he knows we should not fear our finiteness in comparison to him.

Because God is not restricted by the passage of time he does not fear, and indeed cannot fear, what will happen at the “end.” For God has no end. He has no beginning. And there is therefore nothing that hinders him from embracing the fullness of living.

The promise of eternal salvation is one of the greatest gifts God can give to us. In giving us eternal life God gives us a glimpse into what it means to see through his eyes. We have a beginning. Each of us does. But because of God’s image impressed upon our being, we can say we participate to a limited degree with this everlasting aspect of God’s being. We cannot become God or small gods. But rather we can get a taste of what it means to exist as God does. This too is a mystery. One that cannot be fully explained with human words. One that we can merely understand through allusion and comparison.

One of the wonders of the Christian faith can be found in what we are initiated into who we profess faith in Jesus Christ. And what we have been given access to as a result of our trust in the sacrifice of Christ. That mystery is the promise of everlasting life. What this fully means, and how this will be fully expressed, cannot be known until we step out of this life and into the presence of God. But even now we can get glimpses of what it means to live in God’s presence when we worship in song and in deed.

It is through these temporary enactments of daily living that we are exposed to the kind of life we will experience when we cross over from this world into the next.

The reality of the season of Lent in which we are now celebrating, we can take a moment and reflect on what is to come. The irony of this framework between time and timelessness is that when time ceases to be the idea of a moment will be erased. What we will be left with is an ever-present present. The very notions of past and future will cease. And what we will be left with is the intimacy of the immediate moment.

So while we travel life’s road and commemorate the season of reflection, my hope is that we will not lose sight of the glorious promises being fulfilled in the present moments we are passing through.

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Lent 2022 | Day 6: Humility

I don’t recall who said it at the moment, but I will never forget these words: “Humility is not thinking less of yourself. Humility is thinking of yourself less.”

One of the most difficult attributes of our character to train is humility. In some ways, humility runs counter to our natural tendencies. The natural instinct to preserve ourselves is not only good but is necessary in order to live in this world. One of the problems is the tension that exists between protecting our lives and not allowing our ego to make us the center of the universe. Whether that be in our own minds or in the relationships we have with others.

Of the many challenges that exist in the Christian life learning to follow Christ in his example of humility is one of the greatest. There are several reasons for this. The first of which is we find ourselves comparing ourselves to Jesus. And while there is some sense in which this is the right approach, this can also lead to a certain kind of despair and disappointment in our failure to live up to his example.

One of the realizations that I’ve made in recent years, is that we should look to the lives of the disciples as it relates to our ability to fulfill Christ’s example to us. What do I mean by this? I mean that if the disciples, with all of their struggles and failures, could become such powerful instruments in the proclamation of the gospel then there is hope for us today.

It is in serving without any desire for compensation that we see how deeply the humility of Christ has penetrated our lives.

This may seem to be somewhat simplistic but I don’t think so. And here’s why. If the requirement of becoming humble is to be Jesus then we will all fail. But if what Jesus taught those initial disciples can be re-taught to us there is hope that we can become the kinds of disciples that reflect Christ’s humility in the world.

The older I get the more convinced I become that what humility is, is not what I think it is. Too often we think of humility as requiring a humiliation of who we are. But this is not what Jesus requires of us. Jesus is not calling us to distort or destroy the image of God within us. He is called us to look at those around us and to uplift the image of God in them. This may seem like a minor difference, but I find it to be a difference of eternal significance.

When we make serving others the guide for how we will measure our growth in humility, we will see those places in our lives where we struggle to be like Christ. It is in serving without any desire for compensation that we see how deeply the humility of Christ has penetrated our lives. This is not to say there will not be days when we find ourselves struggling to be humble. It just means if there are more days we find serving others fulfilling and natural we can say we have learned what it means to be humble. Even as we continue to grow in humility.

The season of Lent is a season of reflection. It is a time when we stop and look at those areas of life that require attention. And when we compare not only ourselves to Christ but also to the example of the disciples, we can learn the lesson of living a Christ-like example in a world that trends toward seeking only its own selfish ambitions.

I would like to encourage you to not feel as though you have failed to live up to the call of Christ to be humble. Rather, it would be better to strive to embody and perform a deeper service to those around us. In our serving, we will learn who we are becoming. And we will also find ourselves awakened to those places where Christ must continue to grow in us.

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Lent 2022 | Day 5: Walk

One of the many images we find as it relates to the Christian life is the image of walking with Jesus. While Jesus was on the earth the primary mode of getting around from place to place was that of walking. So it should not surprise us that walking can serve as an important illustration of how we should think of the Christian life.

I find it interesting how walking with God is often framed in a particular direction. We are walking towards heaven, or to some purpose or mission. Our assumptions about walking with God are usually connected to the destination. But what if this is all wrong? What if that is not what God had in mind when he invites us to walk with him?

As Christians, walking with Christ is a challenge, but it is not a challenge that Jesus wants us to fail.

When we talk about walking with God we should probably think about this relationship with God as walking at a particular pace. What that means is we should not be too hurried or too inclined to drag behind.

When we walk with someone we have to try to match their pace. It is usually the person who has greater stamina who makes the adjustment for the person with lesser stamina. What this means for us as Christians is that even though walking with Christ is a challenge, it is not a challenge that Jesus wants us to fail. The longer we walk with him the greater our endurance becomes. The less taxed we feel by the endeavor.

The second idea we should consider when thinking about walking with Jesus is the idea of awareness. We often take for granted the roadways and walkways we have access to in our modern communities. And while there may have been roads in the ancient world they were not constructed from materials providing a smooth surface. Even with cut stone, the roadways would still have had contours and texture.

In a way, as we talk about walking with Jesus we should be mindful of the fact the places we will go and the terrain we must travel will require an increased awareness. The unevenness of the ground, and the potential roots and holes that could trip us up, are all hazards we must keep an eye out for. In the same way that this is true in the natural world, the same kinds of hazards exist in the spiritual world.

The journey we take with God as we walk with Christ requires we do not take as an assumption that we will be traveling along safe and maintained avenues. To walk with God is to walk a dangerous path. Not because God wants to see us harmed but because life in a fallen world will always have the potential for peril at any turn.

Even Jesus warned us to be mindful when we went out into the world to fulfill God’s purpose in our lives. Whether we want to accept it or not, one of the undeniable realities of the human experience is that there will be trials, and for some of us, there will be tribulations. It does not matter whether we expected it or not, we can endure it with God’s help. No one will ever live a trouble-free life, no matter how hard we would like to avoid it, life leaves us no alternative.

While this may seem dark and even pessimistic to some I take a different view. The fact that Jesus himself endured the difficult journey of life, gives me an enduring hope that regardless of what life may throw at us we can know that not only can it be survived but we can thrive in the midst of what comes. This may sound counterintuitive. Even a little “pie-in-the-sky” for some. But I am not basing this on my ability to make it. I am grounding my hope in God’s capability to bring me through whatever circumstances I may find myself in.

As we continue on the steady march toward Easter morning, I would encourage you to take some time this week, to get outside and take a short stroll (or even a long one), and spend some time reflecting on what your journey with Christ has looked like up to this point. And if there is anything you feel impressed by the Holy Spirit to change I would encourage you this take a step of faith in that new direction.

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Lent 2022 | 1st Sunday in Lent: Celebrate!

Every Sunday in Lent is considered a mini Easter and is therefore not counted among the days of Lent. During this time we should pause to celebrate the goodness of God as he brings us closer to himself and into a deeper understanding of the work of Christ in our lives.

Today we’re going to celebrate the Grace of God.

There are many misunderstandings and misconceptions about what the grace of God is. And I will not try to dispel all of them in this post. What I would like to do is consider what the ministry of Christ means for us if we accept Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection as God’s plan for our redemption.

For those of us who claim the name of Christ and have become followers of him, the greatest realization we can accept and celebrate is that God has done something for us that we cannot do for ourselves.

God has entered into the human condition and walked among us experiencing the fullness of the human experience so that we might know he understands what it is like to be one of us. The miracle of the incarnation is not only that God became like us. That in and of itself is truly glorious. The miracle of the incarnation is that God truly understands what it means to live in a world that is broken and drifting away from him.

God’s grace, as it is seen in the life and presence of Jesus upon the earth, is the proof of God’s glorious love for us.

The weight of sin and the effects of spiritual brokenness upon men and women cannot always be fully understood. It is something we experience in unique ways because we are individual people. One of the challenges we face is recognizing that though we might experience similar events we do not always experience the same manifestation of emotions. What this means for us is we should not compare our experiences. We should just recognize how each experience shapes us into the people we are becoming.

Now, what does this have to do with God’s grace? That is a good question. And I would answer it in this way.

God’s grace, as it is seen in the life and presence of Jesus upon the earth, is the proof of God’s glorious love for us. That God would exit his perfect heaven and enter into our broken world so that we might have a relationship with him is worthy of celebration. The reality of God’s grace can sometimes escape us because we do not, or maybe we simply cannot fully appreciate the cost of Jesus entering into the world to God.

The Christian church has taught this idea, this doctrinal truth, from the very beginning. And so for those of us who have the benefit of centuries of theologians and divines speaking to it, Jesus’s entrance into the world feels as if this is something “normal”. But the truth of the matter is this is anything but normal. Anything God does is supernatural. And even though we accept as an axiom of faith the entrance of Jesus Christ into the world through the miracle of the incarnation, we should not lose sight of how truly glorious this reality is.

As we celebrate this first Sunday in Lent, I encourage you to take a moment, to pause and reflect on this wonderful reality that we have been gifted. In just a few short weeks we will remember the fullness of the sacrifice of Christ. But as we journey towards Resurrection Sunday, we should stop and rejoice at the goodness of God as it is seen in the grace of God.

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Lent 2022 | Day 4: Remember

What is the purpose of remembering?

It is to give you a chance to relive and rehearse what you’ve been through without necessarily having to live through it again.

One of the obstacles we have to overcome when engaging in a time of remembering is dealing with emotions that haven’t been addressed or have gone unresolved. These memories are important even when we do not necessarily have a clear path forward.

The goal of remembering should be to enter into a deeper analysis of the events and to discern, as best we can, the lessons we can take away from them.

We should not be surprised when we find ourselves stuck on a memory unable to move forward. This is actually quite common. It’s at times like these when we should seek the counsel of a trusted friend or mentor. Sometimes in conversation the combined wisdom of your lives can bring about some new insights that may have gone unnoticed before. This may not be the best approach for everyone.

The goal of remembering should be to enter into a deeper analysis of the events and to discern, as best we can, the lessons we can take away from them.

Sometimes writing down our memories and reflections can be helpful. Other times using our imagination to put ourselves into that situation may be the way to go. Regardless of the method we use, the goal should be to look at the event and the choices that we made, and possibly the mistakes that were made in order to gain a better understanding of how we can grow and move forward.

As we continue our journey towards Easter, it is good to take a moment to reflect and remember on those things that could keep us from embracing the fullness of Christ’s sacrifice on the cross. This time of reflection is key in helping us to consider where we are on our journey of faith.

As we look back and even consider where we might go in the days, months, and years to come, remembering when we are not in the immediate emotional state of that event gives us an opportunity to think and look at what happened with a little more clarity.

This is not an easy task for many. But in spite of the challenges, it is well worth the effort. When we remember and reflect and consider where we have been and where we would like to go we grow as individuals and as members of the faith communities to which we belong.

We should not underestimate the power of our own spiritual maturity and development. It may be something other people do not consider to be of value. However, as followers of Christ, we are called to a continual journey of development. This journey can sometimes lead us to places and conclusions we did not anticipate or expect. But regardless of where we end up we can put our trust in Christ to lead us from there to the place he said he was preparing for us.

To walk by faith can sometimes feel like an overwhelming challenge. But that challenge should not cause us to despair or lose hope. We should continue to turn our attention towards Christ, allowing him to continue his work in us as he conforms us into his image and cultivates in us those disciplines that will yield a harvest within our lives.

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Lent 2022 | Day 3: Light

One of the many challenges we face in faith is learning to trust God.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

James 1:17 KJV

God is light. The very notion of this strikes us as confusing. The reason is that as people with bodies the idea of our bodies giving off light makes no sense. And yet this is one of the key descriptors of God’s being given to us in Scripture. What are we to make of it?

Even if we were to accept that God is light in a literal sense we should not be surprised by this. For God is purity itself.

It is both terrifying and comforting to think of God as being light. It is terrifying because it means there is nothing that can remain hidden from him. It is comforting because there is nothing that can remain hidden from him.

The comfort we have in knowing that God knows all it is that God is not surprised by what we bring to him.

One of the many challenges we face in faith is learning to trust God. The description of God as light should increase our trust because it means there is nothing we should try to hide from him. We might feel shame in confessing it out loud because it means admitting the truth to ourselves, but that is far less difficult than living under the burden of the truth we’re trying to hide from the world.

The description of God as light should increase our trust because it means there is nothing we should try to hide from him.

The longer we wait the more difficult it becomes. The more accustomed we become to its presence in our lives. The more we fear its revelation to the world.

And so as we begin the season of Lent I think it’s appropriate for us to take time to consider what things in our lives we should allow God’s light to shine upon. This does not mean some form of public confession needs to be made. Although that is not necessarily excluded. But it does mean making a clear and unequivocal confession to God, seeking his forgiveness with a sincere heart.

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