Journalling Toward the Cross: First Week in Lent, February 18th-24th

This is meant to be used for devotional purposes during Lent. Grab a journal, read the passage, pray, look at the questions, think about your answers and then journal.

Thoughts for the Week:

What is sin? What does it look like in your life?

Day 1: Genesis 2:15-17, 3:1-7

This passage is familiar to us all, sometimes it is important to carefully read the passages that we know best, to see what they actually say as opposed to what we think they say.

What does this passage actually say about Adam and Eve?

What does it say about the serpent?

Why does it say about sin?

What does it mean to be human?

Can you imagine your life without the shadow of sin?

Day 2: Matthew 4:1-11

What does it mean to say and know that Jesus was tempted to sin?

Can you relate to any of the temptations that Jesus was presented to Jesus?

In what ways are you tempted to sin? In What ways do you sin?

Day 3: Romans 5:12-19

We know we all sin, we all fall short of who God is calling us to be. What does that look like in your life?

How does it feel to think so much about the sin in your life?

What does it mean to you that Christ’s righteousness allows you to be righteous?

How does that change how you live?

Day 4: Psalm 32

What does it mean to confess sins? What does it look like?

Is it hard for you to confess your sins to yourself?

Is it hard for you to confess your sins to God?

When you don't confess your failings to yourself, or to God it eats us from the inside out, you “waste away.”
Are you living with unconfessed sins?

Take time to confess your failings, your shortcomings, your sins to God.

Know you are forgiven.

Rejoice.