“Complete Cycle”

Ezekiel 39: 29: “And I will not hide My face from them any longer, for I shall have poured out My Spirit on the house of Israel, declares the Lord God.” We often associate Lent with Easter, but the goal of it all, as we found on Monday and Tuesday this week, is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on a cold, godless society. It is a journey, as Don L. Saiers put it, “From Ashes to Fire.” These forty days are not just about dredging up old faults, the same ones we mourned over last year, but of moving on, forgiven and restored, in resurrection power toward a whole new existence in Christ.