Ashes to Ashes

 The other day my devotional was about the season of Lent which is coming up next week. Here's what it had to say,  It's was 77 degrees and sunny, and all of the trees were flowering as i drove to church for the noon ash Wednesday service today, a strange irony since the first day of lent is about sin, death and repentance not sunshine and new life. Lent is the season when we remember the sacrifice that Jesus made for us on the cross, which is why it begins with ashes. Ashes symbolize death: the death that all of us will face one day, the death our sins bring, the death that Jesus died for us. Sin costs. it consumes whatever it touches, like a flame to a pile of wood. It turns beautiful things to ashes. Because of this i know that being a christian means becoming a firefighter to the sin in my own life. I can't become lazy and let the small sins smolder because they don't seem to matter. It's a reminder of how much my sin costs the savior- Sarah Arthur
This made me think alot about the sinful nature of all us that even i deal with in my life. Especially the little things that even i tend to just let slide. But i know that God is a forgiving God and he forgives us even when we sin daily and yet he still loves us so much! that to me is amazing! The bible passage that was with this talked about how sin orginally started which was with the fall. So here's what it has to say....

Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”  ² The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, ³ but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”
 ⁴ “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. ⁵ “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
 ⁶ When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. ⁷ Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
 ⁸ Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. ⁹ But the LORD God called to the man, “Where are you?”
 ¹⁰ He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
 ¹¹ And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
 ¹² The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
 ¹³ Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”
   The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
 ¹⁴ So the LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,
   “Cursed are you above all livestock
   and all wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
   and you will eat dust
   all the days of your life.
¹⁵ And I will put enmity
   between you and the woman,
   and between your offspring^[a] and hers;
he will crush^[b] your head,
   and you will strike his heel.”
 ¹⁶ To the woman he said,
   “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;
   with painful labor you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
   and he will rule over you.”
 ¹⁷ To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’
   “Cursed is the ground because of you;
   through painful toil you will eat food from it
   all the days of your life.
¹⁸ It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
   and you will eat the plants of the field.
¹⁹ By the sweat of your brow
   you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
   since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
   and to dust you will return.”- Genesis 3:1-19

soak up this devotional from one of my favorite websites- The First Step Towards True Beauty
I hope you enjoy this.