There is only one sin God can not forgive...
It was a beautiful day. The night’s storm has scrubbed the streets
and the sidewalks clean, which were glistening in the light filtered through
the branches of the trees shading the restaurant. The waitress who’d brought us
the coffee was now slowly wiping the table next to ours and tidying up the
chairs. My ears perked up.
Only one?!!! I was a dry sponge, eager to learn as much as I could
about this fascinating Being I didn’t believe even existed just few days
ago. What
is He like? What does He love? What does
He hate? Does anything tick Him off? Can I really know Him?!!!
If it’s only one, I am in good shape. I chuckled with a huge sigh
of relief. I’m sure I’m not going to win this reverse
cosmic lottery and be guilty of THAT one.
What is it?
Self-righteousness, my friend replied with unreadable expression.
SELF-RIGHEOUSNESS?!!?!!
The world might as well have
fallen off its hinges. I couldn’t believe what I just heard. How can something that seems so right turn
out to be so wrong?!!! All my life, I tried so hard to be right, to the
point that became the core, the very essence of my being. You could look me up
in the dictionary under ‘self righteous’. I was proud of being proud! Even if I
wanted to, there was nothing – nothing –
I could do to change this. This is who I AM.
For the first time in my life I
had a problem I was completely powerless to solve. The weight of the revelation sat on me like a
mountain of hopelessness. Awake or
asleep, alone or in a crowd, the world as I knew it – the ignorant fool’s
paradise - was crumbling before my very eyes.
I knew I was doomed.
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