Good News / Bad News

Genesis 3:19 (NIV)
Ash Wednesday

¹⁹ By the sweat of your brow

you will eat your food

until you return to the ground,

since from it you were taken;

for dust you are

and to dust you will return.”  

Last year this time, Pastor Brodie wrote a devotion for Ash Wednesday. I am using part of that writing here for us to consider and take in as we begin this journey once again. This season is a time to examine ourselves, and our lives together in the Body of Christ. It is a time when many of us try to do something good. Some will give up a favorite food or drink in remembrance of Jesus giving up His life for us. Others will take on a new practice. Perhaps more prayer, improved family time, reading our Bible regularly, or serving others.

The key is to continue these practices after Lent. To carry on with the new behaviors we adopted and see how close we can draw to Jesus and to one another.

"Ash Wednesday is the day that we linger with the bad news instead of rushing to proclaim the Good News. The Good News is so good because the bad news is so bad. Sin will run its course, these human bodies will turn to dust one day, we were made from dust and to dust we will return.

Forty-six days from now we will proclaim the Good News of Jesus’ resurrection. Until then let us not forget…we were made from dust and to dust we shall return."  --  Pastor Brodie Taphorn

                                                            

Additional reading for today: Mark 9:33-37