Happy Easter, everyone! This is easily my favorite time of the year. We’re finally done with all of the discipline of Lent, and now we get to rejoice in the resurrection of Jesus Christ!
Last night, I attended a very good talk in which the priest asked a very important question: What does it mean to me that Christ has risen from the dead? Well, to me it means that Christ has overcome death and sin by rising from the dead. It means that I no longer have to be a slave to masturbation, homosexuality, and pornography anymore! The chains are broken and I am free! Certainly this is cause for rejoicing. And I do rejoice in Christ’s resurrection. For awhile anyway.
Usually what happens is that I forget all about the joy of Christ’s resurrection sometime in the middle of the Easter season. I pray that this doesn’t happen again this year. I think this year I am going to make it a point to meditate more frequently on Christ’s resurrection and its implications for my life, more than 2,000 years after it happened. I am going to spend more time meditating on the fact that sin has no power over me anymore by virtue of Christ’s death and resurrection, and how sin only has power over me because I allow it to have power over me. I hope this meditation will keep the hope of my salvation alive in my heart.
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