Sin is Spiritual Sabotage
Dear reader, today we discuss the tangled web of sin and its consequences. Continuance in sin comes down to some refusal to grow in some way. It is a slow poison that seeps into the soul and stifles divine potential.
Now, it may seem obvious that sin is evil, but let us not be deceived by such surface-level understandings. Sin is obstruction to progress. It is the habitual refusal to do what is right, and a refusal to move forward.
To speak of sin as a barrier to progress is not to diminish its moral weight, but to elevate it to a deeper truth. Continuance in sin is unrepentant sin. Manifest in multiple areas of life and allowed to take domination, it becomes a rebellion against the very nature of being. Our purpose in being is to become more fully ourselves, and fulfil the divine design that God has built into our souls.
How can we know that continuance in sin keeps us from doing greater good than we are doing now? Simply put, it slows progress. Progress is accumulative, and so missed progress is also missed accumulation, which multiplies quickly and leaves us vulnerable. Eventually sin piles on to stop progress completely, or at least earlier than it should have. Why should we quit our sins? Why should someone quit smoking? A soul entangled in sin is like a ship caught in a storm, with its sails tattered, its course uncertain, its destination obscured by the fog of self-destruction.
Sin then forestalls the fruits of God’s greatest gifts. Sin then, to some degree, is a kind of procrastination in an underlying refusal to take the next steps. Here is fear of being without the favoured sins, and a mistake of the bounty to be had at their disposal, and in this life but for so much more.
Most seem to view sin as simply external acts inconsequential outside of the individual and their right to choose mistakenly, something to be condemned but not deeply explored further than this. In reality, sin is far more than that. Continuance in sin is a denial of the fact that we are called to become more, to grow, to rise above the limitations of our current status. It is to deny we are not our own and reject the holy spirit within.
This is why progress is so vital. Spiritual progress is the internal movement toward wholeness, from ignorance into awareness. Sin, in its manifold forms, is an obstacle, a barrier that prevents us from reaching the heights we were meant for. How dare we?
Everyone errs. To speak of progress, however, is to acknowledge the divine order within creation and that God has a purpose. We are part of this movement, on one side or the other. So which is it? To continue in sin is to resist God, or to participate in the greatest work of becoming who we were actually created to be?
What is it that holds us back? What sins do we cling to, not out of necessity but out of habit and ease? What would happen if we were to release them, even if in small ways at first, and begin to move forward? The divine gifts we crave are already here awaiting us, not as rewards for some impossible perfection, but as blessings offered to those who are willing to grow. Truly, blessed are the injured in Spirit, for they have the whole miraculous journey ahead of them and then the lessons to share afterwards.
God bless and I hope this message finds you well.