First Sunday of Lent

Repent!  Mk. 1:12-15

Everyone talks about how God is Love.

And God is!

But sometimes they use it as an excuse to do whatever they want. 

And what they do is not loving in the end. 

It is selfish. 

No one however seems to quote Jesus saying,

“Repent!”

But He did!

And why did He tell us to repent?

Just look around. 

Division, anger, war, violence, lust, greed, injustice are everywhere. 

God may be love but we are not!

This is why Jesus tells us that we must Repent!

We may say to ourselves,

“Why do I have to repent?  I am not that bad.”

But Are we really as good as we think we are?

Sin blinds us. 

We do not always see what we do and do not always hear what we say. 

Lent is a time of honestly asking ourselves 

“What have we done and what have we failed to do?”

The Kingdom of God is at hand 

And there is no room for selfishness of any kind. 

No room for greed or lust or jealousy or pride. 

For Only those who repent of these things can enter the Kingdom of God.