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What if Lent Could Rekindle Your Faith? Exploring the Kerygma
Life can take us on unexpected paths, and sometimes our faith journey can feel like it’s taken a detour. If you’ve found yourself distant from your faith, or if you’re simply curious about exploring it again, this Lenten season offers a gentle invitation to reconnect. These daily reflections focus on the Kerygma, the core message of Christianity – a message of love, hope, and new beginnings. We’ll be exploring eight key “Acts” of God’s story, from creation to our present call to partnership with Him. There’s no pressure, no judgment, just an invitation to consider a different perspective and perhaps rediscover a connection you thought was lost.
Act 3 of the Kerygma: God’s Unwavering Love
Theme
Kerygma Act 3: God’s response to the Fall and promise of redemption
Exodus 34:6-7
The Lord, the Lord, a God gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in love and fidelity, continuing his love for a thousand generations, forgiving wickedness, rebellion, and sin; yet not declaring the guilty guiltless, but bringing punishment for their parents’ wickedness on children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation!
Reflection
God’s love is never coercive—He offers us freedom to choose Him or to turn away. In this passage, we see the heart of God’s invitation: to choose life by following His ways, or to turn from Him and face the consequences of separation. Though the people of Israel were given a land of promise, their future depended on their faithfulness to God’s commands.
This same choice is presented to us each day. Do we choose God in our words, actions, and priorities? Do we place our trust in Him or in the fleeting things of this world? Lent is a time of renewal, an opportunity to realign our hearts and commit ourselves again to the path of life. Through prayer, we seek God’s wisdom; through fasting, we detach from what leads us away from Him; through almsgiving, we embrace the love that reflects His heart. Today, let us hear God’s call and choose life.
Prayer
Loving Father, in this season of Lent, I am humbled by the depth of Your love. Help me to truly understand Your mercy and to trust in Your unwavering faithfulness. Write Your law upon my heart, and grant me the grace to live in the freedom and forgiveness You offer. Amen.
Action
Today, take a moment to reflect on a time when you felt God’s forgiveness. Write it down in a journal or simply hold it in your heart, allowing gratitude to fill you. Then, extend that same grace to someone in your life who needs it.
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Sharing
Jesus last words on Earth were to his disciples, can be found in Matthew Chap 28 when Jesus told his disciples, “Then Jesus approached and said to them, “All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.”
Jesus calls all of us to share in his redemptive mission here on Earth. I would ask you to share this Scripture reflection with your family, your friends and your acquaintances, and then share it with a couple of individuals that you may may not be comfortable sharing with, keeping in mind always the words of Jesus, And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age
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