“Do not set your heart on your wealth, nor say, “I have enough.” Do not follow your inclination and strength, walking according to the desires of your heart. Do not say, “Who will have power over me?” or “Who will bring me down because of my deeds?” for God will surely punish you. Do not say, “I sinned, and what happened to me?” for the Most High is slow to anger.”
Excerpt, First Reading, Thursday 27th February 2025 – SIRACH 5:1-8.
So, very often we blatantly commit sin and since nothing happens to us immediately afterwards, we feel that we supposedly go away with it. Therefore, over time, we have been emboldened.
We have even witnessed situations where people who are outrightly bad, yet they keep prospering.
My dear friend, today’s teaching is cautioning us never to get comfortable in sinning.
As rainfall do not discriminate where it falls but falls on every roof and every farm land, so, all farms are nourished with enough water.
Some of us may so foolishly come to the assumption that God is oblivious of our sinful ways. So, we become comfortable in them.
Remember what the scriptures say about sinning, that no sin goes unpunished” meaning, every wrongdoing will eventually face negative consequences, implying that no bad action will go without some form of retribution, whether in this life or the next. “Be sure of this: The wicked will not go unpunished.” – PROVERBS 11:21.
Take a look at this, no matter how much God loved King David and declared that David is a man after his heart, when David sinned, God sent Prophet Nathan to tell him of his coming retribution. All happened to David and his family as God instructed Nathan to tell him.
My dear friend, though, God is patient and slow to act, we mustn’t glory in sin and get comfortable in it.
Have a fantastic day folks.
#Blessed_Carlo_Acutis! #Pray_for_us!
– Akase F. Agabo
27th February 2025.