Up from Down (contd)

Blissful Beginnings 2B

The lint that sticks is sin.

So what’s happening?

Sin is.

Sin, the result of a dissenting free-will, is ...

Sin, the result of reckless and rebellious abandon, is ...

Sin, the result of eschewing God’s Way for the world’s way, is …

Sin, the punishment incurred by Adam & Eve for their disobedience in the Garden of Eden and the subsequent imprinting of that "original" sin on all of us, is ...

Sin, the result of believing lies, is.

Sin, the capital sentence, is.

Sin, the mosaic curse, is.

Sin, the ubiquitous stain, is.

And because sin, so the net result of sin— judgment is.

And that judgment is played out mercifully—yes!, mercifully—in our lives in such a way as to draw unavoidable attention to itself (usually in the form of unhappiness mixed with fear or anxiety). And the truly astounding thing is that if we have or acquire the proper capacity to understand what the trouble is telling us then we have found not only the cause and affect of our malaise, but also it’s cure.

Welcome to the first miracle. 

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