Sin of the Heart

Aka Adultery of the heart.

 

 

Part One.

 

 

Years ago I was swimming at St Leonards, a bayside beach on the Bellarine Peninsula on a beautiful sunny afternoon. A delightful sea breeze was blowing across the bay from the Mornington Peninsula some 30 miles away.

 

 

Floating on the breeze came thousands upon thousands of wisps of spider web. At the bottom of each web was a tiny spider.

 

 

The newly hatched spiders had recognised the perfect conditions, caught the breeze with their little gossamer threads, and sailed off to meet their destiny.

 

 

Brave little soldiers!

 

 

 

 

Part Two.

 

 

In the first major public appearance of the gospels, Jesus delivers the policy statement. After pronouncing the strange blessings, he exposes a major flaw in the theory of salvation through extreme righteousness. The theory doesn’t work. They know it in the very fibre of their beings. Each living cell has replication as a condition of existence. Lust for life is strong and can always manifest as desire. David’s heirs understand. No one is free enough of guilt to throw stones.

 

 

The consequences are horrendous. No salvation.

 

 

He picks up a thread from Ecclesiastes to reassure them. “God is good to the ungrateful and the wicked, be merciful just as your Father is merciful.”

 

 

Later in the same Gospel when another flaw is exposed, He is asked The Question and gives The Answer.

 

 

When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and said, “Who then can be saved?”

 

 

Jesus looked at them and said, “For human beings this is impossible, but for God all things are possible.”

 

 

 

 

© 2007 Epiphanist

 

 

 

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