“Lent is the forty-day period leading up to Easter. In the Bible, we see many significant periods that lasted forty days — Moses on Mt. Sinai, Elijah on Mt. Horeb, and most notably, Jesus in the wilderness.  As we prepare for Easter, we want to remember Christ’s suffering. In the world around us, we see pain, suffering, and death. Lent is a time when we symbolically journey with Jesus into the wilderness in fasting and prayer, remembering these realities that surround us and anticipating with joy the dawn that will rise on the empty tomb — the hope of the resurrection and the promise of the restoration of all things.” — Sojourn Community Church
Let us worship God, who has done great things.
We rejoice in our God, who made a way
through the desert of this world.
Let us worship God, who has caused streams of mercy
to flow in the wasteland.
We are the people God has formed through Christ;
we worship him, and we rejoice!
Let us worship God in spirit and in truth.
We praise God for the grace that has saved us.
Alleluia! We rejoice!
-based on Isaiah 43:19-21
Reprinted by permission from The Worship Sourcebook, c. 2004, CRCÂ Publications.
