To indulge our self-seeking appetites
at the expense of what’s truly fulfilling,
This is sin.
It is a rebellion against the way
God created us to be,
it is preferring our own disordered, shortsighted, and irrational preferences
to God’s perfectly wise and loving will.
This tendency is always at work in us,
and whenever we give into it,
it tightens its grip,
making it harder for us both to perceive
our true good and also to pursue it.
Thus, “everyone who
commits a sin is a slave.”
The way to overcome
our tendency to selfish implosion
is to “make Christ’s word our home.”
When Jesus tells us
to make his word our home,
he is inviting us to dwell in his will,
to find our comfort, our solace,
our rest, and our renewal in his will.
Jesus comes to rescue us from
our vain attempts to concoct
some magic formula for self-fulfillment.
His will is his word,
and his word is the expression of his love,
so to dwell in his word
is to be in a constant communion
with the one who loves us –
to live in friendship with Christ.
He is the truth, and he will set us free.
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