SIN

Definitions matter.

The weight of the world

Is the consequences of our choices.

Pride leads us to destruction, deceiving us to believe we can carry the weight of the world.

Guilt, fear, shame, anger, sorrow, pain.

These voices Lie to us.

They conspire to separate us from GOD, from relationship.

These lies also separate us from each other. From relationship with others, isolating us from compassion, from Love, from forgiveness and mercy.

They lie to us, deceiving us into holding grudges, seeking vengeance, into rage and hatred.

These voices lead us into darkness where we seek to hide from GOD, from relationship because we believe the lie that we are unworthy of love, of mercy, of forgiveness, of Love.

That is the nature of sin.

Sin is anything that leads us to break our relationships with GOD, with people. Sin is the lie of pride and shame, and anger that isolates us from Love.

GOD does not believe those lies.

Love is there waiting, patient, kind, merciful.

Love declares , you are worthy, you are Loved.

You are not worthless, you are not alone.

It is written,

“The wages of sin are death”

The death of love, of joy, of peace, of mercy, of relationship, the death of life and everything in life that is good. That death is the despair, the immense weight of the world.

You do not have to face it alone.

Simply reach out,

GOD is watching, waiting, loving.

GOD is not condemning, GOD is mercy, Love, forgiving.

You are made for love, to love.

You are called to be

Friends.

Read John.

See HIS word for yourself.

John 3:16-17

¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

¹⁷ For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

John 15:12-17

¹²This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. ¹³Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. ¹⁵Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. ¹⁶Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. ¹⁷These things I command you, that ye love one another. ¹⁸If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.