If I touch a hot stove, I will feel heat and pain. The appliance gods aren’t punishing me for breaking a rule. It’s simply that choices have consequences and actions produce reactions. Touch hot stove, get burned. That’s all. As some people have wisely stated, “We aren’t punished for our sins, but by our sins.”
Sins are just mistakes. Sin is not getting it right, not hitting the mark. It’s touching the hot stove. Let’s remove from our consciousness any idea that there is a punishing God waiting to catch us misbehaving only to unleash retribution on us. We don’t want to comply with rules out of fear; we want to cooperate with wisdom, compassion, and generosity for the joy, healing, and empowerment such cooperation will bring. God is Love and Love isn’t waiting to trap us, torture us, or condemn us. Love will let us make our own mistakes, and we’ll need to take responsibility for them… but Love is there all the while holding us, never letting us go.
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