Comments on: Here’s to Death: Lent (part two) http://www.contentunderpressure.net/2010/02/18/heres-to-death-part-two/ life. faith. action. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:29:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: April http://www.contentunderpressure.net/2010/02/18/heres-to-death-part-two/comment-page-1/#comment-141 April Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:00:34 +0000 http://www.contentunderpressure.net/?p=673#comment-141 'Twas a good conversation we had yesterday, and a good post to follow up. There are many things I need to die to. It reminds me of Colossians 1:24 "Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church." We all need to make personal presentations of afflictions as believers, which is not a seasonal thing, but an ongoing part of our lives as followers. Christ's afflictions comletely justified our sins to God, however, we need to present these afflictions to the world so that others might understand. Paul's words are still true today, that we must make up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ. Not that Christ's afflictions are a deficit, but that after his resurrection we were left to carry out his afflictions for those who do not yet know Him. This to me is what Lent is all about, in all seasons, not just this one. ‘Twas a good conversation we had yesterday, and a good post to follow up. There are many things I need to die to. It reminds me of Colossians 1:24 “Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church.”

We all need to make personal presentations of afflictions as believers, which is not a seasonal thing, but an ongoing part of our lives as followers. Christ’s afflictions comletely justified our sins to God, however, we need to present these afflictions to the world so that others might understand. Paul’s words are still true today, that we must make up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ. Not that Christ’s afflictions are a deficit, but that after his resurrection we were left to carry out his afflictions for those who do not yet know Him. This to me is what Lent is all about, in all seasons, not just this one.

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