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What gets in your way when pursuing a deeper, more fulfilling relationship with God?  What roadblocks do you repeatedly hit, inhibiting a life of joy and service?  What’s on your plate that brings you down, harms your relationships, or diminishes you? 

Today we begin our Lenten journey – a time of intentional spiritual growth when many commit themselves to the spiritual disciplines of repentance, prayer, meditation and fasting.  This Lent, however, we will consider fasting, not from food or drink, but from those things which threaten to pull us away from God.  In what ways do you need to fast from apathy, resentment, shame, fear, perfectionism, or judgement?  As we seek to fast from these damaging tendencies, we open the door for God’s healing grace to empower our lives. 

Reflect

What weight do you carry?  What sin clings so closely that you may not even recognize its presence?  How can you more fervently run the race God has set before you? 

Study

Hebrews 12:1-2a. 

“Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith.” 

Pray

Let us pray: 

Lord God, give us the energy and courage to face the sin that clings so closely.  Set in us the resolve to lay it aside.  We pray in the name of Jesus, pioneer and perfecter of our faith.   

Amen. 

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