Oswald Chambers, in My Utmost for His Highest, points out "it is a snare to image that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do." He goes on to say, "God's purpose is to make us one with Himself."
The aim of our Lenten discipline, therefore, may not be so fixated on how to remove the blemishes from our lives (40 years, let alone 40 days is too short a time to achieve that goal), but the aim of our Lenten discipline could be to "live in perfect relation to God so that my life produces a longing after God in other lives." (Chambers)
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