“The forty days of Lent are a representation of the time when Jesus endured desert and the temptations of the devil. The celebration of Lent is to prepare the Christian believers through the acts of prayers, penitence, self-denial and giving of alms for the annual holy week commemoration.”
Self sacrificing is what we are asked of and is what we should do for the others. Just as how Abraham tried to sacrifice Isaac in God’s test on him and just as how Jesus sacrificed himself for us.
How much do we do to giving up our desire for a greater good? How much more we are not willing to give up?
If we do remember how He loved us till his death, so what else we would reserve and not to give, if it is for Him?
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Today when I did the first reading, I found my voice was a bit different from before. I was speaking like a story teller and yes, what happened in Genesis is just like a story surrounding the solid faith of Abraham, which becomes the faith of today’s church. “I will bless you abundantly and make your descendants as countless as the stars of the sky and the sands of the seashore...”
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