Before true resurrection, death takes place. This death is death to the world.

This world flees from every sign of death, especially death to itself. Looking through the masks of plastic surgery and make-overs, the world still finds itself in a downward spiral of continuing confusion and depravity. We are lost, following blind leaders into a pit of destruction. At a young age, we are told to burn any image of God within our hearts, leaving us to believe in resurrection and life through our passions. While we continue to indulge ourselves in the pleasures of this world, we constantly find an empty chasm within us. A chasm we try to fill with sex, violence, and idle pleasures. This leads us only to sickness and sorrow, feeling regret and pain for what we have done. By this time, the world’s disease has already taken control of us, and we think the only remedy is more pleasure but its only our deterioration. We find ourselves stuck in a whirlwind constantly looking to the world to help us and it never will.

We leave friends and enemies in their graves along the way, inglorious and hideous. We begin to see a glimpse of what might become of us. There will be no difference between the rich man and the poor, both will return to their dust. Where has pleasure got us now? Is not everything that we stored upon this earth now in vain? In the world there is no resurrection, only destruction.

We must die to the things of this world, and the things of this world must die to us. In order to live once again we must think with a different mind, hear with different ears, love with a different heart, and speak with a new tongue. We must rebel against the passions that brought us to despair and fortify ourselves against the destructions of the world. Let us remember the God they tried to take from us, and drown our old lives in the water of baptism. Christ has risen from the dead, trampling down death by death and upon those in the tombs bestowing life!

+The Editors