Lenten Devotional AT40 Day 5: Lips Are Movin, Meghan Trainor
Meghan begins the song singing,
I know you lie
Cause your lips are moving
Tell me do you think I'm dumb?
I might be young, but I ain't stupid
Talking around in circles with your tongue
I gave you bass, You gave me sweet talk
Saying how I’m your number one
But I know you lie
Cause your lips are moving
Baby don't you know I'm done.
It's clear that Trainor desires more than lip service in a lover. The same is true for God. We are now five days into the lenten journey. How are you doing in your repentance discipline. Remember this season is an opportunity to turn your life around toward God. Have you gone deeper in this repentance or has it remained lip service?
I can hear John the Baptist singing along with Meghan Trainor when he chides the crowds in Luke 3: 7-8.
When crowds of people came out for baptism because it was the popular thing to do, John exploded: “Brood of snakes! What do you think you’re doing slithering down here to the river? Do you think a little water on your snakeskins is going to deflect God’s judgment? It’s your life that must change, not your skin.
Our lenten disciplines need to go deeper than the ash on our foreheads. God wants more than our words to change, God desires for our lives to change. That's going deep! That kind repentance is a real turn around. Lips Are Movin, but are our lives bearing the fruit of repentance?
What do you think?
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