Message - 7th March 2010

LENT III

Next Sunday, we would have reached the mid-point of our Lenten experience.

This first period of the experience has been one where we have been encouraged to look closely at our relationship with each other.

The invitation of the Lenten discipline calls us to seriously look at our relationships; for it is on our relationship that we are called to witness; to know God and to witness for Him through humankind.  The witness is one that challenges us to use the opportunities of reflection during this Lenten time; to reaffirm who we are and whose we are!

Such discipline calls us to engage in an experience of transformation and affirmation that cause each of us to be most affective wherever we are and wherever we go to the Glory of God.  We are expected to demonstrate the acts engaged in during this period continually throughout our daily living.

If lent has caused change, then allow change to find its rightful place in our daily lives, making each of us better and affective members of the Body of Christ.  Those of us who have not taken advantage of the discipline, it is not too late to cause Lenten reflection, devotion, and silence to be a meaningful part of our spiritual lives.

Those who have travelled to this point, I hope have taken advantage of the opportunities available through the Church, and also personal forms and structure of spiritual engagement.

Nest week, the focus begins to change in our pilgrimage, and we will be invited and encouraged to go deeper as the focus calls us to look at our relationship with God. 

This period leads us into the most solemn time of the discipline in the Christian Church; therefore, it calls us not to be distracted nor diverted, for our faithfulness will indeed be most spiritually rewarding, and hopefully, a means of strengthening the spiritual fellowship where individually we are affective and collectively strengthened.

Let us continue to be faithful to the discipline and encourage others to join us a we move towards the goal of our spiritual journey!

Be focused and encouraged!