Sin is an earthbound fog. The fog limits our vision and awareness of consequences. Sin is an atmospheric condition similar to that of any other. Sin can be seasonal or doggedly routine. Sin can be geographically located or burned off by the sun. Sin is arrogance. What sin is not, as some make the biblical story time of the Garden of Eden to say, is an unavoidable God ordered natural human condition. Sin is an atmospheric condition. Our world was created with the possibility of living and dealing with the arrogant fog or the choice of seeking clear skies. That was the choice given to every human as represented by the tree in the midst of the Garden of Eden. What the tree or the fog is not, is our natural human God ordered and intended destiny.
Life
therefore becomes a test, a choice, that choice will reverberate into eternity.
Jesus chose to walk into his God intended destiny, the humble way. When Mahatma
Ghandi was invited into an unfamiliar home during his many travels, he would first
go to the bathroom of that home and clean the toilet. In so doing, this saint
was making practical the belief that the arrogant fog, for him, had long gone.
Cleaning toilets was his way of staying out of the arrogant fog. Now that is a
test.
G. Goslaw
Landers, ca.
