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LENTEN RETREAT
\n Day 18<\/p>\n

\"mindofchrist_Fotor\"As the deer longs for streams of water…<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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PERHAPS<\/strong> you feel as incapable of holiness as I do in continuing to write this Lenten Retreat. Good. Then we have both entered a critical point in self-knowledge\u2014that apart from God’s grace, we can do nothing<\/em>.\u00a0But that does not mean that we should do nothing.<\/p>\n

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I cried out to the Father once, “Lord, it is as though a thousand things tug on my attention.” And His reply was, “…and I give you grace in a thousand ways. Look for Me, hunger for Me, call for Me\u2014but make sure you are looking in the right places.” <\/em><\/p>\n

Today, as no generation before us, we are assailed each moment by a thousand distractions. Literally<\/em>. If it’s not coming from the radio, television, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Messenger, new sites, sports sites, shop sites, the telephone… it’s now coming from our own thoughts, as the attention span of this entire tech generation has been shortened. We have to pay attention to this… the image of the Beast <\/em>is already demanding our worship and adoration, and we\u00a0often give in to it in a thousand little subtle\u00a0ways. [1]<\/sup><\/a>cf. Rev 13:15<\/span><\/span>