Today's blog was contributed by Rodney Whitfield, FUMCR Young Adult Pastor.
For years I gave something up for lent. I was doing what I thought you were supposed to do. I gave up soda, sweets, chocolate, ice cream… but at the end of the 40-days (not counting Sundays) I would go back to my cravings. It was all in the name of sacrificing… Right?
Maybe lent is more than just giving something up? I know I will get to do it again in 6 weeks. Is that a real sacrifice? Maybe lent could be life changing… Maybe I could get real and see myself face to face… Maybe I could make a change, which will bring something new, or different in the world.
The last several years I haven’t been giving something up, unless I was doing something else in its place. So don’t just give up starbucks for 6 weeks, but take the money you were spending at starbucks and give it to a local food bank so someone else might eat. Don’t just give something up, do something new. Do something that will change your life and someone else's. I am giving up 2 hours of TV a week this lent. One hour to spend playing and reading with my kids and one hour reading a book about the last 24 hours of Jesus life.
What will you do this lent?
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