Day962; Dream
February 19, 2013 3 Comments
DREAM: Our neighbor’s house was remodeled. The workers stripped everything in the house and the only remaining items were the frame of the house. The house framing was extended to double the area of the house. The look of the house was totally different and I cannot even notice the resemblance of the old house. The driveway was empty and there were no homeowners around. When I walked towards the backyard of my house, I noticed that the neighbor’s wood patio extended way beyond to my side of the fence line. The wood patio was sitting right close to my own backyard patio. There was a woman who was at the backyard watching the workers and I was going to ask her about the patio but I did not; I just left the patio like it is. I was not sure if she was the owner or not.
neighbor’s house-?
remodeling-?
unfinished house but in progress-?
extended/expanded house-?
over extended neighbor’s patio-?
I agreed of what you have written here but we have something to discuss later.
The Christian and Sin
What is the nature of sin?
Sin is primarily a refusal to love God, a refusal to be loved by Him, to guided by Him. In sinning, man seeks for a false fulfillment, and threfore actually becomes impoverished. Sin, is an act of disruptive of one’s relationship with God. But sin has other dimension also. it is a refusal to love other men as we should. For the Christian, sin is an offense againts the covenant life of the People of god. Sin is so hard to understand because it is an absurdity. But if we are to grow properly in the Christian life, we must have some basic realization of what sin is, and of God’s attitude towards sin and the sinner. Our best source for such a mature realization is given to us in the crucified Christ. In this figure we can know all the Father wqants us to comprehend concerning sin.
First of all, Christ crucified tells us very stakly of the overwhelming heinousness of sin. We know that sin is overwhelmingly evil because it alone could nail Incarnate Goodness to the cross.
Secondly, Christ crucified speaks to us concerning the justice of God. nGod’s justice does ask satisfaction which is the death of His Son. Thirdly, very important for us poor sinners, the crucifiedChrist speaks to us unmistakably and overwhelmingly of the Father’s great love and mercy towards us. Because of this love and mercy we can be so positive about human existence, for great as is the power of sin, the love and mercy of the Father, incarnated in His Son, is infinitely greater. This is our peace and consolation.
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