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Ultimate humility, ultimate love

Meditating on Jesus' humility will help us with our own.

Christopher Doerr

Personal freedom is overrated. Maybe you knew that already? Free time, me-time, calling my own shots, living out my dreams. Nope, obedience is where it’s at. Humble obedience is true freedom. To wake up every day knowing that God himself put me on this earth to be a blessing to others (and bring him glory and put the devil to shame), all by following his lead, all by obeying his Word—that can give so much meaning and purpose to my life every day.

I didn’t always think so.

Explore more on the topic of Lent:

Reality as God reveals it

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“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter” (Isaiah 5:20). . . .

Tucked away safely

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The rain poured down in buckets with no sign of letting up. The boy and his father waited in the store entrance. Through the pelting water droplets, they could see the minivan, but it looked like it was miles away. A quick check on the smartphone's weather app revealed . . .

A service of darkness

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In the still hours of Good Friday, the Service of Tenebrae beckons us into the shadows. How should we observe the sacrifice that happened that day, a sacrifice of the immortal for mortal humankind? All of history pointed to that moment when the the Son of God hung on . . .

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