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Ash Wednesday!

Today marks the beginning of an important event in the Calendar of the Universal Church of Christ, it is Ash Wednesday. It is the first day of the penitential season of lent, the ceremony of placing ashes on the forehead as a sign of penitence. These ashes obtained from burning of palm front from previous Palm Sunday celebration.
Ash (residue) is solid residue of combustion. And combustion is a process of rapid oxidation or burning of a substance with simultaneous evolution of heat and, usually light. Please note the process that brings the ash, evolution of heat & Light; our Christian call is to give out heat (energy) & light to others, while we ourselves reduce to ‘ash’.
Dear as the Church marks Ash Wednesday, it is not about inscribing of crucifix on our foreheads that matters, it is the issue of dying unto Sin, so that our light will so shine before men and bring Glory to God the father. There is also something worthy of note, it is the recitation of the Priest as he places the blessed ashes on the foreheads of the congregation: “Remember that you are dust, and unto dust you shall return”
From the passage today, we saw the King of Nineveh realizing this, when him and his subjects where convicted of their wickedness. They fasted from the heart to the outside, God heard them and changed His mind from destroying them. A lesson for us as we begin Lent! Fast from the heart to the outside!         
 
Lesson Learnt
Our deeds should leave the level of being good to become righteous
Prayer
God as we celebrate Ash Wednesday, help me to indeed be reduce to ash while evolving heat & light to the world in Christ precious name (Amen)

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