One of my goals for 2016 was to participate in Lent. Traditionally, Lent is a time for fasting and reflection in the 6 weeks leading up to Easter. It’s a time we remember our sinful nature, our need for redemption, and a time to turn to Jesus in repentance. Today, I was meditating on this verse:
You do not want a sacrifice, or I would give it;
You are not pleased with a burnt offering.
The sacrifice pleasing to God is a broken spirit.
God, You will not despise a broken and humbled heart.
What is a broken Spirit? A broken Spirit is one who realizes how lost it is. How evil it’s intentions are. How much it is in need of the love of God to come and fix it. It is willing to do what it takes to be fixed. It knows it cannot do it alone. It knows it is not God. A broken spirit is willing, humble and ready.
That is what God wants. As I take this time during Lent to reflect and return to Jesus, I pray above all things I turn to God with a broken Spirit. For as this Psalm promises, God will not despise a broken and humbled heart.
Elizabeth Horn 