In the name of Jesus, I renounce the lie that my sin, utterly abhorrent as it was, put me beyond His mercy and love.
I really shouldn't have to do that one any more, but my words to the guy in the glass this morning - or his to me - were not the slightest bit kind.
(Coaches apparently love this poem; I heard two of them quote it at Cincinnati Catholic Men's Conferences. I can still hear Ditka emphasizing, almost to the point of a shout in my memory: "you're only a BUM!")
This lie is the basis for or the result of the spirit of self-sufficiency or self-justification. That "I'm good enough" to deserve God's love, that God loves me for the good person I am, or will love me to the degree that I am, or would if I really were, is a fundamental distortion of the nature of God's love and our relationship with Him.
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