“When it comes to choosing between my wants and the needs and wishes of others, it’s easy to prioritize the things that I desire. Thanks to sin, being selfish is our default mode. Selfishness is the “virus” that often prevents us from loving others with the same focus and intensity that we love ourselves…
Defeating sin requires the intervention of the Holy Spirit. The season of Lent, beginning Feb. 18, can be a time when we allow ourselves to be transformed from self-centered to other-centered people. My prayer is that I can get out of the way and allow the Great Physician to change me. I pray the same for you.”
Connie Fabor, editor of Christian Leader magazine, in the letter from the editor, January/February 2015.
I echo Connie’s prayer…that Lent will be a time when the Holy Spirit convicts each of us of sin and transforms us from self-centered to other-centered people. Over the next forty days (plus seven feast days and the seventh feast day is Easter) we will explore three disciplines: prayer, fasting, and giving to the poor. Our journey begins tomorrow.