“The LORD is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him. The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him. It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.” Lamentations 3:24-26
Lent is upon us. A time of fasting and preparation. But, as grounding a time as Lent is, it is not a time to focus upon our lamenting sins. Yes, look within your soul, dig out the abscesses of sin but don’t lament over them more than necessary.
We who know of God’s Divine Mercy, know ahead of what lies at the end of Lent need not lament our wretchedness. We should not build a bed of and lie down in our sinfulness. We should lift them as offerings to the passion and cross of our Savior.
Confess and accept Divine Mercy!!!!! Let the sins go and be gone.
For many years I focused on all the sins I had committed against God in my days before coming back to God and even more on those sins I continued to commits after I found God and made Him a priority in my life. I condemned myself that I should have known better. Guilt raged even after mercy was given. Then, instead of basking in the glow of the confessional’s absolution, I would wallow in the mire of guilt.
No more!
If we believe God’s Divine Mercy as shown in St. Faustina’s writings and taught by the Church, sin is dead and gone once we confess. We need to look past prior failings and even, dare I say, our current falls. Look to the greatness and glory of God’s Divine Mercy. Confess and let it go. Confess and scowl with contempt at the devil’s ploy to draw your heart and mind to feel guilt. We seek what is above all out understanding – Divine Mercy.
As St. Paul writes in Colossians, stop looking around us at the worldly things, at our past sins and temptations. Start to train our mind and heart to see only Divine Mercy. We can never understand how big this is, but, Jesus died on the cross for you to have your guilt destroyed along with the sins. Washed away by the blood and water rushing from His Sacred Heart. The old you dies in the Confessional, Jesus calls you out as He did Lazarus. “Come out…Unbind him and let him go.” John 11:44
Do you let go of your sin and guilt in the confessional or do you harbor that guilt somewhere deep within? Let Jesus free you of the sins and guilt as He washes you from His Ocean of Mercy.
“If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.” Colossians 3:1-3