So It Is
Monday, April 7, 2025
Sin Casts A Wide Net
The Well Trod Path of Sin.
Easier than bushwhacking our way?
Psalm 103:6
The Lord works vindication and justice for all who are oppressed.
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James 4:17
Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, commits sin.
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Words of Grace for Today –
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Scriptures contain so many promises and promises and promises of how God comes to the aid of those who suffer, especially those who suffer at the hands of other humans.
But
we honestly can say
We truly wish it were so!
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The deep rooted, widespread, ongoing problem is simply that we humans are creative, most creative, when it comes to doing what we know is not right,
telling ourselves
so rationally
so heartfelt
so comprehensively
that though we know we are doing wrong,
we really are doing the best
for us
and that makes it right.
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And since God created us to love, which requires freewill, including the choice to not love,
therefore
we will always be very creative at sinning,
and causing harm and suffering to others (and ourselves – for doing others harm, causing suffering, always comes back on the perpetrators more powerfully than on their original victims.)
So we could go out and wipe out all those sinful people. Ending humanity no less.
But the most profound word is
that vengeance is God’s,
not ours.
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So we will continue to sin, causing harm and suffering,
and we will continue to hope that God will set things right.
Maybe in the afterlife?
Maybe in our hearts?
Maybe not turning everyone from vengeance, destruction, and manipulation (deadly as any other attack on another person),
but bringing a few in every generation to know
love
as the purpose of life,
and joy a free gift from God.