Day of Praise

Wed, 03/01/17, Ash Wednesday, "Day of Praise"

 

Today is Ash Wednesday. Worship someplace if you possibly can so that you can be reminded of your mortality, hearing God's Word, "Remember that you are dust. And to dust you shall return" (Genesis 3:19, Ecclesiastes 3:20). 

Many churches (like ours at 6:30 am, 11:45 am, & 6:30 pm) share the imposition of ashes (reminding us of our mortality), which are imposed on each forehead in the shape of a cross, reminding us that, through faith in Christ and his saving work on the cross, our mortality is covered in immortality. 

In essence, the imposition of ashes in the shape of a cross claims God's promise that, though we must die and return to the dust (unless Jesus comes again before we do), death cannot hold us because we're joined through faith in Jesus to the one who cannot be held by death because he's already defeated it by his death on the cross and his glorious resurrection! 

Praise God!