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Why is it so easy to be fat and lazy? It takes very little effort to sit and do nothing. Eating is hardly a chore, particularly the really good stuff.
It is easy to eat and hard to fast . . . easy to sleep and hard to pray.
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February 21 is Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent which is 46 days before Easter - Sunday April 8.
We think of Lent as being 40 days because for whatever reason Sundays don't count. I have always thought of Lent as a forty day period of preparation for the coming of Jesus.
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I found this statement on the net . . .
Lent comes from a word for springtime and could be viewed as a spiritual spring cleaning: a time for taking spiritual inventory and then cleaning out those things which hinder our corporate and personal relationships with Jesus Christ and our service to him. .
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It is not a scriptural idea to give up sin for a season. So, if we do a "spiritual spring cleaning" and sin is found, repentance is required. Like the quote says, we don't clean up, we clean out. Lent is not about being good or not doing the bad stuff for forty days.
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On the other hand, giving up something for Lent is a form of fasting and that would be a good thing.
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So what do you have to say about Lent?