The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world. Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice. But the fact of Easter gives us the spiritual power to do the work, accept the discipline, and make the sacrifice.

Sherrill contrasts Easter’s proclamation—Christ’s resurrection—with any expectation of immediate worldly transformation. The “contemporary world” remains marked by ordinary obligations and moral costs: labor, self-discipline, and sacrifice. Yet Easter is presented as a source of inward enablement rather than external alteration: the resurrection supplies “spiritual power” to persevere and to meet duty with courage. The emphasis is pastoral and practical, aligning Christian hope with endurance rather than escapism. In this reading, Easter does not remove suffering or responsibility; it reorients them, grounding strenuous ethical life in a renewed confidence that death and despair do not have the final word.