Lent for Life.

Today, as every year. People have been walking around with crosses of ash on their foreheads. And people talking about lent.

I get it, I understand it in theory, but why should I give something up once a year? So many people I know address it with such redundance and ritual.

I turned on Air1 and the deejay was talking about how Christ gave it all, so we should give something up for him.

Yes. Appreciate what Christ did for your life. And give Him your life in return. What's the point if you give up facebook but spend no time with Him? When Christ fasted in the desert for 40 days, He spent all His time with the father. It wasn't some schnazzy thing to do. There is a time to fast, but personally it feels like a ritual to do it an established time of the year.

A friend put it in the best way Ive heard; Brandon posted

"Everyone is giving up certain things for lent, a 40 day period, why don't we all just give everything that is ourselves up to God for the rest of eternity?"

This picture is the attitude to take. Everday we should be washing our minds, "Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will." Romans 12:2