The problem with Fat Tuesday is that it becomes—for many—a license to become a glutton and a drunkard for a day. Eat until it hurts. Drink until you are inebriated. Perhaps even fornicate or adulterate.
I hate to break it to you, but Fat Tuesday is—for the Christian—no different than any other day of the year. It is to be lived in Christ, crucifying the sinful flesh with its passions and desires. God grants no license for gluttony or drunkenness or sexual immorality. Not on Fat Tuesday. Not on Ash Wednesday. Nor on any day of any week in any year.
So go ahead. Enjoy the good gifts of food and drink (in moderation) from your heavenly Father. But more importantly, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
“For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.” [Romans 8:13]
“Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.” [Romans 13:13-14]
“But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.” [Galatians 5:16-17]
“Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.” [Galatians 5:24]
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