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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 8 of the Kerygma: “God, Infinitely Merciful, Desires That All Men Be Saved”
“The final Act of the Kerygma is God’s ultimate desire and intention: that we be restored to Him forever. God’s love remains steadfast. He pursues us across every generation. His mercy is endless. He sent His Son to save us. And He now invites us to make a free-will response to His love—to say yes to Jesus, to be baptized, and to live as His disciples, so that the whole world may know and experience His love and mercy.”
“Transformed by Mercy: Saying Yes to God’s Final Invitation”
Psalm 103:8-14
The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in mercy. He will not always accuse, nor will he keep his 1 wrath forever. He does not deal with us as our sins deserve, nor repay us according to our iniquities. For as the heavens are high above the earth, so surpassing is his mercy toward those who fear him. As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him; for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust. 2
Reflection
Somewhere deep in each of us is the quiet fear that maybe we’ve gone too far, fallen too short, or that God’s mercy might run out. And yet today, this psalm silences that fear with wave upon wave of truth: “as far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our sins from us.”
Here, in the final act of the Kerygma, we are reminded that the God who made us also knows us—knows our frailty, our dust-born struggles—and yet still desires to restore us fully. This is not a love that keeps score, but one that erases the record. This is not a mercy measured out drop by drop, but a flood, overwhelming in its gentleness.
This passage reveals a God who sees you with compassion, not condemnation. A Father whose heart is stirred for you, whose mercy “towers” over your weaknesses. It is the mercy of a God who doesn’t just forgive, but invites you home.
Lent calls us deeper into this truth—not only to receive it, but to be transformed by it. Your baptismal promises weren’t just a moment; they’re a mission: to live as one loved beyond measure, to be an echo of this mercy in the world. God is asking you again today—Will you come home to Me? Will you walk with Me in this restoration of all things?
Prayer
Father of Mercy, You see me, know me, and still love me beyond comprehension. Teach me to rest in Your compassion. Cleanse me of fear and shame, and draw me closer to Your heart, where I can be made whole and new again. Amen.
Action
Write a letter to God today. Tell Him honestly how you feel—your fears, your hopes, your gratitude. Then re-read today’s Psalm, slowly, as His loving response back to you.
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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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