Towards an Understanding of L E T

On this first Lord’s Day Sunday in Lent, we are most privileged to be able to meet together, to continue a journey of Lenten Enlightening Trials. May I remind you and make it simple and plain to all who are joining us new, some explanation and a bit of spiritual, faith insight into the understanding of LET.

The acronym LET as has been documented, refers to Lenten Enlightening Trials. This means that we are dealing with trials associated with Jesus, His Passion, His Penance, His Punishment, His Procurement and His Platitude. These include sayings such as, too blessed to be stressed; God never gives us more than we can bear; this too shall pass; you need to trust God more; it could be worse; all that we speak in His hearing.

Let us thank God the Holy Spirit for His enlightening in these trials of God the Son, as we give all honour, might and merit to God the Father. Let us know that we are undeniably safe, and unflinchingly sure in Jesus, for He has been through it all – a Man tempted in all points as we are tempted – yet He never ever gave in to one single temptation.

Thank You Lord for every Lenten Enlightening Experience, regardless of what the trial is and how it comes at us. Amen!

LET is also a word in its own right, with vastly different meanings. Here are a few, as used in sentences, so that the meaning of the word LET, is made distinctly clear. 

• Mr. Jones let his apartment for fifteen hundred dollars a month, to a couple who was looking for a place to rent.

• They would not let us go on the Safari trip, no matter how we begged.

• The referee shouted let, when the tennis player serving the ball, struck it into the net. It was a bad serve and had to be served again.  
  

This I believe and know without doubt, about the One whom we are following during these forty days and forty nights of Lenten Enlightening Trials.

• He let me have a HOME with Him, under one condition and it is that I remain in Him. If I really remain in Him, and He in me, then these Lenten Enlightening Trials will be faced victoriously.

• He let me go with Him, under one condition and it is that I deny myself, take up my cross and follow. If I am dead to all my ways of thinking, speaking and acting, then these Lenten Experience Trials will be faced triumphantly.

• He will never allow me to hear the call of let, in this trial of life, a call which was never His as He never had to die on the cross a second time, because the first time was caught in the deceiver’s net of evil. If I am no longer my own but His, then neither are my hands mine, but His Hands. Whatsoever He puts His Hands to do in these Lenten Experience Trials, will be faced and done conqueringly.

It is with this understanding of LET that we proceed in continuing with Jesus, in the wilderness, where the Holy Spirit led Him. Throughout this second week of our Lenten Experience Trials, we remain following Jesus, no turning back. We too, in so many different ways, will continue to face experiences where the evil one will not hesitate or let up even, in trying to seduce us and lure us with his sick charm. Nevertheless, this we know and show in every experience in the wilderness of our Lenten walk.

We are in the Caring Hands of the Only One who has never lost a battle with the powerful devil.

We are under the Watchful Hands of the Only One who has never been deceived by the crafty, unscrupulous devil.

We are under promise by the Conquering Hands of the Only One who is a hundred percent shrewder than any serpent, in whatever forms presented.

Thank You Jesus for our LET experiences during our journey with You in this time of Lent. We confess, there are moments when our human bodies, prone to weariness, weakness and pure helplessness, due to the constant trials, become too much for us to bear. We cry out to You Lord and You hear, for You are right here with us. Regardless of the power given to the devil to come against us, Your Power is beyond, for You are the Almighty God. Thank You for faith and trust in You, for no believer who puts his or her faith and trust in You, is ever disappointed. Thank You for victory in You, dear Jesus. Amen!