You’ve messed up. Maybe really badly. You’re staring your sin in the face. In this moment you have one of three options: 1) you can overemphasize and exaggerate the burden of righteous living emboldening yourself to embrace rebellion and bitterness against a God who requires something of you 2) you can down play your actions while simultaneously minimizing your salvation or 3) you can wrench your eyes from your sin and look at the cross, accepting your wretched behavior but also finding life in His free gift of grace. Today’s readings focus on these choices either to vilify God, minimize God, or trust God. The readings are extremely rich, interesting, and even though the themes aren’t new, my heart heard them in a new way. I hope you have the same experience!
