It is said that in ancient Rome a murderer was punished by having their victim’s body strapped to their back until it had rotted away. More relevantly, the Bible views us as already dead, already decaying into the darkness due to our rejection of the One who is our Light and Life.
Our offences – our selfishness and sin - are like death clinging to us and this kind of death never just falls away with the passage of time. We might wish these things would go away. We might regret them with every fibre of our being. We might weep away our sleepless nights aware of what we have done, of who we are. Yet, none of these regrets or tears can ever cut that body of death away from us. Or else we might laugh it off, filling our hearts and minds with the sights and sounds of work, friends, family and entertainment. When the stench of that body of death clinging to us gets too strong, we may simply turn up the volume on our work and entertainment. Yet, it never goes away.
Nothing we can ever do, nothing we can ever feel or resolve, no therapy or drug, no holiday or mid-life crisis or personal trainer or year out can ever take the corruption away. From the very beginning we were warned that sin means death, and we can never change that equation. Continue Reading>>>
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