Why are we following the tradition of lent? This is a question one needs to ask ourselves honestly, during this season of lent. What is the purpose of fasting? What is our desire, in going through these forty days of lent? If it is merely following a tradition – it doesn’t help. If it is, trying to change ourselves into a better person – this also will fail.
Lent is a season of SINCERE SEEKING of GOD, through FASTING, PRAYER, REPENTANCE and GIVING OURSELVES WHOLLY, with the SOLE FOCUS being OUR PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION by the GRACE and the POWER of God, for HIS GLORY, and for the BLESSING of HIS PEOPLE.
May the LORD help us to sincerely seeking Him for our transformation. May we willingly surrender ourselves, fully and wholly, unto God our Creator and Redeemer. Even so the LORD help us.
"Lent is a time of going very deeply into ourselves…What is it that stands between us and God? Between us and our brothers and sisters? Between us and life, the life of the Spirit? Whatever it is, let us relentlessly tear it out, without a moment’s hesitation."