Living Differently: Honesty and Truth-telling
Here, Jesus is teaching (through a strange passage about Pilate, pillars, and figs) the essential nature of repentance. Christ offers a life of flourishing and fruitfulness, an honest life, a truth-telling life and not of lies, an open-book life for him to read, to edit, and to re-write. He calls us to a place of repentance. Lent is a time to open our closets and let God clean them out. Q: In what way do we need to open the closets of our souls and lives to God?