Those of us who have been known to describe ourselves as ‘sinners’ will certainly agree, from personal experience, with the statements laid out in the first paragraph of this section… Sin is insanity. It is the means by which the mind is driven mad, and seeks to let illusions take the place of truth. And being mad, it sees illusions where the truth should be, and where it really is. Sin gave the body eyes, for what is there the sinless would behold? What need have they of sights or sounds or touch? What would they hear or reach to grasp? What would they sense at all? To sense is not to know. And truth can be but filled with knowledge, and with nothing else”.
Definitely, for me, during my stint as a ‘bad-girl/sinner’, insanity ruled the day… I constantly felt ‘driven mad’, desperate to make illusions take the place of truth. And oh, how the body was the central, inescapable reality in which I found myself trapped; hopelessly hooked on its addictions to feed its reality through the pleasure/pain, acquisition/consequence dynamics… It ruled my logic and imprisoned my soul…
‘It’, the sin premise, of course, was still my responsibility. It was my choice, my decision to believe real ~ no victims here~.
Yet, once this choice is made and the premise set (as we all know, cuz that’s how the world got real for us) this trap is hidden from view…
From the sin premise, the acceptance as reality, of victim and perpetrator appears to be too obvious to question. Denial is the primary symptom of the sin disease… No one wins. Everyone is guilty. This totally justifies the convoluted means one uses to meet one’s so called needs… And, incidentally, it requires a body to make this experience viable. “The body is the instrument the mind made in its efforts to deceive itself…Its purpose is to strive”.
Now, if we’ve been lucky, as I have, and in a moment of temporary death-by-sin, chose Life; the life of truth instead of sin, we understand that all things, the striving and the body and even denial, can be used by forgiveness (Holy Spirit) toward the awareness of ever-present truth… We deny the denial of truth each time we look honestly at our beliefs and values and question their validly, each time we look beyond the body to the Christ spirit which is constantly unifying us as brothers, each time we allow an ancient hate to become a present love…
I am in need of nothing but the truth…
Today, let us recognize this simple fact as the premise from which we operate our day and let truth guide our choices and relationships. We do nothing that is of the ‘should/have to’ nature … Instead, we wait for truth’s messengers to arrive and show us the way that we must go…
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