Opus 2025-309: Monday Pulpit: New to Me

Sometimes a phrase that I hear will stand out in my mind.  I try to record it for later reference.  Sometimes I get it right, sometimes I just can’t get what I heard.  Sunday the pastor threw in a phrase and just went on which is OK but I didn’t get a chance to ask him about it afterwards.  He was reflecting on our sinful nature, Adam and Eve and the need for forgiveness.

What he said, was something to the effect that our sinful nature is the absence of God in our heart.  I don’t think I’ve ever heard it expressed that way before.  It makes sense.  It goes along with some of the thinking I’ve been doing, which of course makes me more open to it.  It isn’t so much a presence as a lack.  It helps to explain why we can know people who seem to be nice and yet at the same time they are lost in sin.  They may be good in themselves, but the core of their being is focused on themselves instead of being focused on Almighty God.

It goes along with my thinking that the curse of God is more the absence of blessing than an active destructive force.  It is like decaffeinated coffee.  It may taste the same to those of us without discernment and look the same but it doesn’t have the same effect.

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