Ash Wednesday February 26, 2020
Ash Wednesday
1 John 1:9; Joel 2:12-19; Matthew 6
February 26, 2020
“Trusting the Lord When You Confess Your Sin”
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Maybe some of you have done one of the trust falls where you drop yourself backwards from high up and trust others to catch you. That can be pretty much the exact feeling when confessing our sins to others or to God. It takes much trust. You’re dropping yourself off this great height and praying that someone will be there to catch you and not let you fall to the ground broken.
Or when you go into an open heart surgery and they’re going to cut you open, you have to trust that someone knows how to put you all back together before you wake up. Again, this is the thing when confessing our sin. We’re cutting open our heart and laying it bare before someone. We need to be able to trust that they will be able to sew us back together and heal the wound.
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