Ash Wednesday
Scripture Joel 2:12-13 12 “Yet even now,” declares the Lord , “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; 13 and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster. [1] Devotion Today being Ash Wednesday signals the beginning of the Christian season of Lent. A season of fasting and repentance. Two things that are in short supply in this world. We would rather laugh and feast than weep and fast. Our sins, however, demand weeping and mourning. We who are complicit in the sins of the age. We show a disregard for the law of the Lord. We sneer as we break the commandments. Saying God does not see he does not stop us from our sinning. We laugh and celebrate as we sin against God. Yet God says he will be