Is Lent Depressing?

Is Lent depressing?

After all, this 40-day period has historically been marked by repentance, self-denial, sorrow over sin.

And perhaps you’ve thought: Why go to church during Lent? It’s dark. Dreary. Depressing.  All we do is talk about sin, it seems.

Maybe I’ll wait for Easter.

Let me ask, however: Is Lent depressing?
Or is the reality of our sin the depressing part?

For most of our lives, day to day and year to year, we can ignore sin. We can disguise our intentions as “holy and honorable” – when the reality is far from honorable, much less holy. We lie to ourselves, thinking that we have done nothing wrong; that we are the victims; that we are accountable to no one; that “God wants me to be happy,” and such a phrase . . . is used to excuse any transgression of God’s revealed Law.

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Is Lent depressing?  Absolutely not!
It would be depressing if we were left in sin.
It would be depressing to struggle with guilt.
It would be depressing to be sent to the school of hard knocks, dealing with the earthly fallout of sin (with no hope or guidance for getting out of that mess we created.)

Yes, it is a darker season of the church year – due to the darkness of our sin.  But in that darkness, the light of Christ shines as we stand by, observers once more in his passion – his payment for our sin.

Let us find joy in this walk to the cross – as we follow, worship, rejoice in Jesus Christ:

Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted.  But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. — (Isaiah 53:4-5)