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Hiland Presbyterian Church 2021 Lenten Devotional Hiland Presbyterian Church 2021 Lenten Devotional Written by Hiland Friends and Family HILAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 845 Perry Highway, Pittsburgh PA 15229 412-364-9000 / [email protected] hilandchurch.org Geralt from Pixabay — Ash Wednesday, February 17, 2021 — Thus says the Lord God to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. I will lay sinews on you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the Lord.” Ezekiel 37:5-6 (NRSV) The Sweet Smell of Baby Oil I remember the year I thought it would be a good idea to mix the ashes with baby oil before imposing them on congregants’ foreheads during an Ash Wednesday worship service. I’d only very recently become a pastor, and I was feeling anxious about making sure the ashes were administered correctly. I wanted to ensure I’d actually be able to make the shape of the cross without leaving some poor soul with an undefined ashen blot on their forehead. And, I wanted to prevent the ashes from dissolving into a crumbled mess on the tip of someone’s nose. I’d heard that mixing ashes with oil could keep either one of these unfortunate scenarios from occurring and, seeing as how baby oil was readily available and smelled oh so lovely, I went ahead and mixed the ashes with a rather sizeable dollop of baby oil. I wouldn’t exactly say it turned out badly, but I wouldn’t say it turned out well either. I will commit to saying I’ll never mix ashes with baby oil again. Because at the end of that Ash Wednesday worship service the entire sanctuary reeked of baby oil. The scent of baby oil wafted through the air with great abandon, seeping into every crevice it could find. It wasn’t a bad smell, but it’s definitely not the first scent I’d choose to incorporate into an Ash Wednesday service. It seems far more appropriate to associate Ash Wednesday with the smells conjured up by the likes of Ezekiel’s vision of the valley of dry bones. Ash Wednesday smells like dry bones, it smells like dust, it smells like dirt, it smells like death and decay. Ash Wednesday smells like the bleak, dark starting point of the road to Easter. Yet, it’s in recognizing our finitude that we take the first steps toward eternity. It’s in bending low to the earth that we lift our gaze up to the heaven. It’s through the grave that the passageway to resurrection is revealed. When I think of it this way, I start to realize that Ash Wednesday smells a whole lot more like life and hope than I ever imagined possible. Prayer: God of Earth and Heaven, it’s true... we’re dust and it’s to dust that we shall return. Yet, it’s also true that faith in you gives way to life abundant and life eternal. As we take our first steps toward Easter’s dawn, show us the way of life. Amen. Elisabeth Hartwell — Thursday, February 18, 2021 — For he knows our frame, he remembers that we are dust. Psalm 103:14 (NKJV) The words of Ash Wednesday are “Dust thou art; to dust thou shalt return.” The imposition of ashes was an attempt in medieval times to reach the minds of a people largely illiterate. Though it may be assumed that Presbyterians are not illiterate, the symbolism of ashes is rich in meaning. It reminds us, for example, that our physical lives are far, infinitely far, from permanent. And so are our possessions. What we may boast of now is forgotten. Such an awareness discourages pride. We are glad for the gifts of life, but we cannot believe they will carry us beyond the point of our returning to dust. Apart from godly dimensions, life would be ultimately hopeless and really quite useless—useless in relation to the everlasting. The Scriptures admonish us to live apart from, or beyond or above the useless.Look carefully how you walk, redeeming the time. Ephesians 5:16 (ESV/KJV) The word “redeem” is a translation of a form of the Greek word “exagorazo” literally “out of the market place” or “out of the forum.” “Market place” suggests the commonplace, the everyday, the “world” to use a New Testament word. We are not to be conformed to the world (Romans 12:2). To redeem time is to use time in elevated and sacred ways. Certainly acquiescence to sin is utterly commonplace. In Christ we are inheritors of that which transcends the useless dust of the common forum. Prayer: Our Father, by the power of Christ, brought to us in your Holy Spirit, invite us, persuade us, lift us, force us out of the dust. Amen. John Mark Scott (Reprinted from 1997) — Friday, February 19, 2021 — We have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Therefore, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. Hebrews 10:10, 19-23 (NIV) Good News! I’m a Miserable Wretch My goodness – it’s Lent already! It’s the season when God’s people like to think a lot about how sinful they are – they rejoice in being dirt and completely unable to ever be sinless and deserving of God’s love. Woe is me…I am a miserable wretch! At first, it may sound like fake humility (and ’I m sure there’s probably a lot of that going on too) but really, the best thing we can do as human beings is to fully realize just how hopeless we are. Even the most righteous human being is nowhere close to being pure enough to be in the presence of our Holy God. Honesty demands that we admit it’s useless, and even pathetic, for us to try to live up to God’s standards of acceptance. And that, my friends, makes the Good News even better! Hebrews 10 tells us that because of Jesus, we’re in! We’re good with God for all time. Jesus took all of the world’s sinfulness, your sins, my sins, everyone’s sins, upon himself and all our sins died with him on that cross. All of our hatred and greed, willfulness and pride and everything else separating us from God atoned for and removed from us as far as the east is from the west (Psalm 103:12) in that one amazing act of redemption that only Jesus, in the giving of his own life, could offer. On Easter, he rose victorious over death and we with him. Yet, even having said all this, I still come to you a sinner. I can’t stop sinning. Oh, I try. I want to live a life pleasing to God, but I don’t always. Does that mean that something didn’t take? Maybe I’m not sincere enough in my devotion to God. Maybe ’I m the exception to the rule. I mean, if ’I ve been made holy in Jesus’ sacrifice, how can I still be sinning? How can I enter the Most Holy Place with confidence when I know’ I m not perfect? Scripture says my heart has been sprinkled to cleanse me and my body has been washed with pure water, but maybe God missed a spot or two. If I’m made perfect in Christ’s sacrifice, why am I not perfect? The answer can be found in Hebrews 10:14 —By one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy. (NIV) It’s like when a child begins to take dance lessons. Perhaps she even has a natural grace and ability. From that first lesson, she is a dancer, even if she can’t keep her legs under her yet. She has to learn and grow into the dancer she is. Because of his grace and mercy, God sees us as the children of God he created us to be, even if we haven’t quite completely figured out how to be that person yet. It’s a growth process. His love and grace has redeemed us and his love and grace sustain and refine us as we learn to be the children of God he has made us to be in Jesus. Maureen Profeta — Saturday, February 20, 2021 — When I retired in 2005 I was excited that now I could sleep in—no more alarm clocks. I’d get up when I woke up. It did not last very long. For 30 years I had arisen at least an hour before the rest of the family for prayer and Bible Study. It was my special quiet time. When I awoke on my own that special time was gone and somehow I could never find it again during the busy days. I missed that time so much I went back to setting the alarm. I’ve written about this before.
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