07/04/2025
Minitation for the Day:
(source; The Forgotten Medicine by Archimandrite Asraphim Aleksiev)
"If we picture a pair of scales and put human sins on one of the dishes and on the other -- the holiness of all the bright spirits of heaven and of all the righteous people who have lived on earth, then all the holiness in heaven and on earth would not be able to lift up the dish of human sinfulness. Only the power of God can lift it up. That is why God sent to earth His Only Begotten Son Who was to atone for human sin with His sacrifice on Golgotha. Since then, all the sins of man from all times can be forgiven if repentance for them is offered. Since then, there is no sin that weighs more than the weight of God's mercy. "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life (John 3:16). Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world (John 1:29)?
As we approach Palm Sunday and Great and Holy Week in less than one week, let us all seek to repent of our sins and become a sweet-smelling fragrance wherein Christ will long to dwell.
