The stench of sin suffocates.
It's choking. It's pungent. It... Ugh!
The dangerous thing about it though is how it gradually changes the way you feel about yourself.
At first, you hate it.
Then you feel guilty you've done it. Your guilt grows and grows until you find yourself repeatedly going back to the same sin out of learned hopelessness.
Then, you tolerate it; a part of your conscience still trying to break free from this dark deathly act.
Later on, you don't mind.
After that, "it's normal, so why fight nature?"
Not too long later, you want it.
Before you know it, you need it.
Shortly after, you crave it!
In a matter of days, you defend it.
Finally, you encourage those who do it, and teach it to others.
This final stage of sin is the personification of Satan in you. For it is he who has sinned and having been already judged teaches others to rebel like he has that we might all face the same sentence he is bound to face.
In Christ, and in Christ alone, is our hope found. He who conquered the grave and broke the powers of sin and death stands with wide-open hands, seeking to welcome home whomever wishes to be set free from the bonds of sin.
Crux sacra sit mihi lux / Non draco sit mihi dux
Vade retro satana / Numquam suade mihi vana
Sunt mala quae libas / Ipse venena bibas.
Amen.
Kyrie eleison.
It's choking. It's pungent. It... Ugh!
The dangerous thing about it though is how it gradually changes the way you feel about yourself.
At first, you hate it.
Then you feel guilty you've done it. Your guilt grows and grows until you find yourself repeatedly going back to the same sin out of learned hopelessness.
Then, you tolerate it; a part of your conscience still trying to break free from this dark deathly act.
Later on, you don't mind.
After that, "it's normal, so why fight nature?"
Not too long later, you want it.
Before you know it, you need it.
Shortly after, you crave it!
In a matter of days, you defend it.
Finally, you encourage those who do it, and teach it to others.
This final stage of sin is the personification of Satan in you. For it is he who has sinned and having been already judged teaches others to rebel like he has that we might all face the same sentence he is bound to face.
In Christ, and in Christ alone, is our hope found. He who conquered the grave and broke the powers of sin and death stands with wide-open hands, seeking to welcome home whomever wishes to be set free from the bonds of sin.
Crux sacra sit mihi lux / Non draco sit mihi dux
Vade retro satana / Numquam suade mihi vana
Sunt mala quae libas / Ipse venena bibas.
Amen.
Kyrie eleison.