Lent and Easter season

It is the night before Easter..... a truly special night in our Christian faith and tradition.

I missed really celebrating Good Friday with other Christians, our church didn't have a service, but I have been thinking about and pondering it for awhile.

It is a beautiful, holy season indeed.  It is amazing that our faith is built upon the death of Jesus, that betrayal, being forsaken, wounded, hurt, etc., is what He went through.  He is so familiar with the sorrows that we people go through on this earth.  What a beautiful Savior who loves and cares for us and understands us so well.

This year for Lent I tried to give up Facebook.  I say tried because I didn't do it completely, but at least I tried.  I realized I was becoming obsessed, and I was becoming angry, especially over the new little political updates on the right hand side.  I realized I had a Facebook addiction as well.  It was affecting my family, my marriage, and my housework.  It also became a place that I did not feel was safe.  Little tidbits of information seemed to caused fighting and dissension rather than deep understanding.  There are a lot of good things about Facebook, but it was becoming an unhealthy place for me at that time.

I still have a ways to go, but it has been so freeing to step back from it a bit.  I feel I want to continue to step back for awhile.  The other day as I was driving I felt the Lord told me to say, "Lord, my Facebook page is Yours."  The may sound silly to some, but submitting everything to Jesus is what I know we are supposed to do.  I still don't know what that will look like, but I want it to be His.  I want no Facebook addiction.  I want to walk in wisdom in social media.  It is a dangerous tricky medium. It has also brought a lot of blessing.  It has so many pros and cons.

But I am so grateful I did a Facebook fast over Lent.  I felt I could think more clearly, and there was a lot of freedom for me.  I will still use Facebook, it is a powerful communication tool. but I pray it will be with more wisdom and even less.  The Bible says that with fewer words comes wisdom.

Anyways, tomorrow I am helping out with worship at Easter service.  I am looking forward to it.  I am looking forward to worshipping.

God is good.  God is faithful.  I am grateful for Easter season.  I am so grateful Jesus has risen and sits in heaven at the right hand of the Father interceding for me.  I am grateful that my salvation is not dependent on me.  How incredibly loving and gracious Jesus has been to me, a sinner, so weak, so who I should not be.  And yet He loves me anyways and laid down His life for me.   I love You Jesus, and I am so grateful.