2021 Lenten Devotional - Perfectly Wounded

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Day Two // February 18 // Our Body “God knows I’m not perfect, either. I’ve made tons of stupid mistakes, and later I regretted them. And I’ve done it over and over again, thousands of times; a cycle of hollow joy and vicious self-hatred. But even so, every time I learned something about myself.” – Misato Katsuragi –

We begin with the human conundrum. We believe and choose to follow the Jesus who was without sin. We are flawed humanity who constantly fall short and miss the mark of our highest desires. We either resign ourselves to our predicament, or in our struggle to be better, we begin the upward climb of sanctification. We resonate with Paul’s anguish in Romans 7: “For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do… wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?” It is the struggle to be more like Jesus that should define our journey of Lent. How often do we have beliefs that we struggle to put into practice? In fact, there


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