A Loss that cries out for Mercy

A Loss that cries out for Mercy

It isn’t the grace of God that has lost its flavor of peace, but the many increments of  sin that seem to have been absorbed in the ocean.  We often hear that no matter how large or heavy a sin is, the mercy of God is always larger.  “For I will forgive their evildoing and remember their sins no more.”  (Heb 8: 12).

“For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not from you, it is the gift of God.”  (Eph 2: 8).

The emphasis of our sin standing by the ocean and waiting to jump into its majesty of size and depth always reminds us when it is allowed to become an inward analogous example of something becoming nothing and it can never be found.  Whenever a plane crashes into the ocean it may take years to find certain parts, if ever, and will remain hidden for all eternity.  Since this existence of the ocean’s size will be large enough to hide one single drop of water, which most cannot learn of its name or ownership, we know the possibility of ever becoming a tattle-tale revealing our lack of judgment or how many times we sin.  It is here that each one of us can be comforted that not even God will search out our sins, once we repent and he forgets what we were.  

Of all the many mysteries about God, this one is the immense surprise that tells us that sin is the one adversary that our creator could hold against us, and does not even remember our constant rejection of his mercy.   

There is a story about a certain person's confession that tells the confessor that he spoke with God and God revealed a mystery he was to remember.  When the priest wanted to share this person’s story to prove or disprove his truthfulness he asked the person to have God tell him this person’s last sin in confession.  His answer, from the perspective of God revealing the sin he forgave, the answer from God was, “I don’t remember his sin.”   That was enough for the priest!   He knew the penitent was truthful in his statement regarding speaking with God.

Since God forgives and does not hold onto our sins as a reminder to bring it up again when deciding to extend his mercy every time we sin, and ask for forgiveness, the Omnipotence of God speaks out with an everlasting mercy and treats us as if it is our first time for us to commit the same sin, again.

As we have found this essence of Love that cannot be paralleled by man, our growing remembrance of the Passion of Christ has raised any of us up, who believe, to beyond the fear of losing the promise that began with the Incarnation and now is complete with the Resurrection of Christ. 

This is Easter and our resemblance of perfection as we too shall find his mercy is perfection personified.  Our sins are forgiven and become lost for all eternity.  

Ralph B. Hathaway