Lenten-Meditations-2015-w
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Lenten-Meditations-2015-w
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Sanctification<br />
Wednesday, February 18, <strong>2015</strong><br />
THE WONDER OF THE WILDERNESS<br />
READ: Deuteronomy 8:2-4<br />
KEY VERSE: Remember the long way that the Lord your God has led<br />
you these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble you, testing<br />
you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his<br />
commandments. –Deuteronomy 8:2 (NRSV)<br />
Sanctification is a process that describes God’s work in us with the aid of the<br />
Holy Spirit. We are set apart from some things to be prepared for something.<br />
There are things God has for us that we cannot enter into so long as we stay in<br />
our current space. This means that God will lead us through difficult places on<br />
the path to sanctification.<br />
The children of Israel could not leave Egypt and go directly to the Promised<br />
Land. They had to go through a process of being set apart. For some, the<br />
wilderness meant losing the “good things” in Egypt, forgetting that those<br />
things were in the land where they were oppressed. In order to occupy the<br />
Promised Land, they had to be separated from their slave mentality.<br />
In the wilderness, without distractions, God prepares us for something new.<br />
The season of Lent invites us to remember the wilderness experience as we<br />
prepare to celebrate our Lord’s resurrection. –Rev. Judy Fentress-Williams<br />
LOOKING WITHIN: In my <strong>Lenten</strong>/wilderness experience, am I focused today<br />
on what I am giving up or what I have lost? What am I imagining God has in<br />
store for me?<br />
Thank you, Father that you will provide all that I need on this journey<br />
through the wilderness. Thank you that you are with me on this path.<br />
Amen.<br />
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