no new sins

Tuesday July 13th, Colossians 1: 13-14 God rescued us from dead-end alleys and dark dungeons. He's set us up in the kingdom of the Son he loves so much, the Son who got us out of the pit we were in, got rid of the sins we were doomed to keep repeating. Unfortunately we still haven’t learned well and some of us all the time and all of some of the time keep repeating those sins. That is our life, living as forgiven children of God, and living as sinners, each and every one of us. The way Luther said it was that we are at the same time saints and sinners. What God did was rescue us from dead-end alleys, our job is to learn what it means to walk out in the light and to work on overcoming our addiction to this dark dead-end alleys. It is an adventure each and every day and it is amazing how often we turn the corner and head down toward those back alleys again. That is when God tries to turn our focus back toward the light. Sometimes we listen and are amazed at the grace. There are no new sins in the world, only new manifestations of the ones we have been forgiven for time after time after time, generation after generation after generation.