Jesus came and underwent the Passion, not just to take away our sins, but also to heal us emotionally, and make us truly free.
Lent is a time when we begin to become clean with God and accept what God says about us. I came across the following words in the book, The Imitation of Christ: “I have been crucified with Christ …” (Galatians 2:20). To become one with Jesus Christ, a person must be willing not only to give up sin, but also to surrender his whole way of looking at things. Being born again by the Spirit of God, means that we must first be willing to let go before we can grasp something else.
Be yourself. Admit your losses.
The first thing we must surrender is all of our pretense or deceit. Our pretending to be something that we are not. The idea that I am almost a perfect Christian is a deception. What our Lord wants us to present to Him is not our goodness, honesty, or our efforts to do better, but real solid sin. Actually, that is all He can take from us. And what He gives us in exchange for our sin is real solid righteousness. But we must surrender all pretense that we are anything and give up all our claims of even being worthy of God’s consideration.
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Fr John Singarayar SVD
