Devotion for Ash Wednesday 2013
Each day during Lent I will paste a Scripture from the Gospel According to St. Mark and prayer. I hope these short readings and prayers will bless you during this season of penitence.
4 John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. 5 And all the country of Judea was going out to him, and all the people of Jerusalem; and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins. 6 John was clothed with camel’s hair and wore a leather belt around his waist, and his diet was locusts and wild honey. 7 And he was preaching, and saying, “After me One is coming who is mightier than I, and I am not fit to stoop down and untie the thong of His sandals. 8 I baptized you with water; but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.” ~ Mark 1:4-8 (NASB)
Heavenly Father, today at the beginning of Lent, I confess my sins—the things I do that I should not do, the things I should do that I don’t, the things I try to hide from myself, and most of all, the sin of allowing the busy-ness of life to put the mundane duties of life ahead of spending time with You. You are Jehovah, and You command me to put You first in my life. I want to use this time of Lent to grow closer to You, to feel the presence of the Holy Spirit, to love Jesus more. Let this Lenten season be a time of repentance and remission of my sins, a season of spending time with You. This I ask in the name of Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen.
Devotion for Ash Wednesday 2013 was first posted on February 13, 2013 at 4:32 am.
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