Perhaps the thing that has
struck me the most about preparing for Lent this year is how completely I’ve
lost touch with how desperately I need Easter. Hiding from both the world and
my own sin is as easy as opening my computer or texting a friend - I need not
examine the darkness of my own heart if I can find
a good enough distraction, and luckily for me, they’re everywhere.
Peter was a disciple, constantly
surrounded by people who believed as he did. They were by no means a majority,
but there is nevertheless strength in being together. After all his time in
this small band of Jesus followers, it might have become easy for Peter to
believe that he was ready to suffer and die alongside Jesus. It might have
become easy to think that he was past the point of needing to be made whole.
But in the stripping back of Peter’s
earthly supports and the comfort of his friends, he had to come face-to-face
with his own frailty, his own darkness. “I do not know him!”
This year, whether you have made a
change for Lent or not, this is a time to be brought face-to-face with our
desperate need for the cross and the empty tomb. May we all have the chance to
strip back the layers of our distraction, to confront our need and remember
that Jesus has satisfied it in full. May we explore our brokenness so we can
truly treasure the One who makes us whole.
Natalie Jones
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