Thank You, Amazon.

This morning, I opened my email and found a recommendation from Amazon.com.

The name of the book?
Get Married: What Women Can do to Make it Happen.

Lovely, just lovely.

Lent

This Lenten season, I am trying more than ever to focus on the suffering Messiah. I've always been a part of a church that does an excellent job of incorporating the focus of Lent into all of its services and Bible studies. In years past, I have been somewhat immune to the Lenten journey. I've just walked through the motions without allowing myself to be filled with the Spirit. I think the uncomfortableness of the concept helped me to guard myself from the reality that Christ actually was a human, that He actually suffered, and that he did it all for me. The whole thing is incredible. I feel so unworthy, and in that unworthiness comes an uncomfortable feeling of inadequacy. As Christians, we are not promised to be comfortable. In fact, we are called to follow God even through the valleys. By preparing my heart for the death of Jesus on the cross to save my sins, I am also preparing myself to experience the peace that comes when I hear these words:


Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless and with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever.