He said it was about sin.
I waited a couple breaths, not wanting to ask the simple questions, but hoping he would give me more substance ...so I wouldn't have to ask, "What about sin?"
I looked at him with an expression of interest ...and perhaps he was surprised that I was possibly in the 1/4, of who'd even be interested in anything said about sin.
He said that the message was really good, and said that all sin can be reduced to one sin ...which encompasses all other sin.
I asked him what that one sin was.
He replied, "I can't remember."
Now, I can't believe that all sin is the result of forgetfulness. As we get older, we tend to forget things more, but that doesn't mean we necessarily sin more.
Okay, a bit more of my dry humor there ...but, not so fast. There may be something there.
A person who is recognized to be showing signs of dementia, then it appears that alzheimer's is inevitable ...it is a very difficult and sad condition as one may not even recognize a spouse, but it is not sin.
The very difficult separation of emotional feelings and loss of recognition is a heavy burden ...but it is not sin. Sin is a different kind of separation ...a conscious separation from God. This separation called sin is not brought on by old age or a disease ...which both exercise different degrees of forgetfulness upon our minds.
And we don't picture an old man trying to focus. The type of forgetfulness which might center around all sorts of sin ...is more the result of our own lax attitude, our lack of focus among the many distractions of life, and our forgetting how we've been saved by the grace of God.
Prioritizing the events of life, measures our gratitude for the grace we've already received. And though we should not judge events as yardsticks to our lives ...there are things we may feel are clear to us that we put above God.
Lucifer had much to be thankful for ...as all the angels did, yet he looked to put himself above God.
A person who is recognized to be showing signs of dementia, then it appears that alzheimer's is inevitable ...it is a very difficult and sad condition as one may not even recognize a spouse, but it is not sin.
The very difficult separation of emotional feelings and loss of recognition is a heavy burden ...but it is not sin. Sin is a different kind of separation ...a conscious separation from God. This separation called sin is not brought on by old age or a disease ...which both exercise different degrees of forgetfulness upon our minds.
And we don't picture an old man trying to focus. The type of forgetfulness which might center around all sorts of sin ...is more the result of our own lax attitude, our lack of focus among the many distractions of life, and our forgetting how we've been saved by the grace of God.
Prioritizing the events of life, measures our gratitude for the grace we've already received. And though we should not judge events as yardsticks to our lives ...there are things we may feel are clear to us that we put above God.
Lucifer had much to be thankful for ...as all the angels did, yet he looked to put himself above God.
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