Lent is often described as a season of repentance, self-examination, and return. But Scripture also uses Lent to confront something deeper and more uncomfortable: our resistance to grace.
Throughout the Bible, God repeatedly shows mercy to people we assume are beyond it, violent empires, corrupt kings, religious persecutors, and criminals with no time to make amends. Again and again, God refuses to draw the lines where we would.
This Lent, Daily Rhythms invites you to reflect on grace that offends… grace that disrupts our categories of who is worthy, acceptable, or redeemable.
What this devotional looks like
- Begins on Ash Wednesday
- Continues weekly through Lent
- One short reflection each Sunday
- A final reflection on Easter
Each week focuses on a biblical figure or story that challenges our assumptions about sin, repentance, and mercy.
This is not a daily devotional.
It is slow, intentional, and reflective, designed to be sat with, not rushed through.
What we’ll be asking
- Who do we secretly believe is beyond grace?
- Why does God’s mercy so often trouble the faithful?
- What happens when grace is given where we would withhold it?
Lent does not only ask what we have done wrong.
It asks whom we think God should give up on.
Why this matters
Ashes remind us that we all return to dust.
There is no moral high ground in ash.
The hope of Lent, and of Easter, is not that we are better than others,
but that God’s mercy is wider than we imagine.
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