Sin
For the last two weeks I've been attending Willingdon Church thinking that it might be a place to root myself for a while and be discipled. Last Sunday John Neufeld spoke a lot about sin and it's nature. I think I've been looking at sin with the wrong lens. I look at it as a particular act, instead of understanding that at my core, I have inequity (a twisted nature). That very twisted nature dictates that I am in sin, not just committing acts of it. Jesus knows me and all my inequities and transgressions and has forgiven me for them....but what does that mean? How do I understand the depth of that love when I can't even forgive myself for some of the things that I've done? Paul puts it best when he says "I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out" So where am I going with this? I guess it just taught me that thinking that I can overcome sin is just setting myself up for failure but trusting in God is some place that I can start. I understand that I am forgiven by my creator but I need to trust God, so so I can forgive myself. Making that connection is going to be the hard part.
posted by Terrance Wills @ 11:06 p.m.
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