Climacus writes, “Let him not desist from ardent raging tears, from the wordless moans of the heart, until he sees Jesus Himself coming to roll back the rock of hardness off him, to free the mind, that Lazarus of ours, from the bonds of sin…”
The imagery of the stone over the tomb… that my passion this season be to have it rolled from the tomb of my soul, by Jesus Himself, the One who was first Victorious over sin and death.
This Lenten season is a time of preparation for that Great Day, a time of contemplating all that gives that tomb stone weight, and all the ways I do not resist its confinement, and indeed, acclimate myself to the darkness it creates.
