10/29/2021
Swing and a miss! This was an article yesterday in the LA times about fans continuing to boo the Astros. 4 years ago they cheated (illegal stealing of signs/pitches) when they won the World Series. Whether you choose to forgive the Astros or not this shows us the high price of sin/wrongdoing that too many choose to rationalize or ignore.
The absolution of sins cannot be earned like some karmic restitution nor is it delicate. Absolution/forgiveness ultimately requires a brutal payment in blood from each of us for the totality of our life’s wrongdoing, that is the weight of justice. In light of this reality God shows us His sacrificial love while preserving His justice. God paid the blood sacrifice for us through His son’s death on the cross. God earned absolution for us while paving the way for eternal life and relationship with Him, our loving (and just) Father. Our sin is serious so let us turn from trying in vain to justify ourselves before God and others and turn to God to receive absolution bought with the blood of Jesus. Then we can put on the new self, that is in Christ, and live in real freedom as God’s sons and daughters.
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith, and this is not from yourselves it is the free gift of God. Not by works so that no one can boast.
Ephesians 2:8-9