Week 5: Sin + Repentance + The Cross

R. Sandoval

Week 5: Sin + Repentance + The Cross

It’s a wonderful mystery, defined and undefined. It has big fire eyes, speaks words of truth that expose your diluteness of reality, lifts up with his arms a savior with hands that uncover hidden eyes, dressed up in garments of purity, breaths life… 

 The Gospel, it’s what I’m talking about. I wish I could make justice to its endlessly intriguing nature.

According to the speaker of this week, Fiona, the gospel is about four main points: God loves, Sin separates, Jesus saves and then You decide. 

I agree with this statement, but the more I think about it, I feel like it’s also about motion. It’s about a living thing! As lions roar, the gospel kind of sways like wind waves of life. It’s the testimony of promise made flesh, standing over death and defeating it, raising up to open a door to the house of the “The big G” yeah, GOD. It is love.

And when I think about why would he? Why would Jesus do this? Why would LOVE sacrifice? Why the existence of the gospel? What does it mean to people in the world to have “good news”? 

I would say that by just admiring the things that surround us, we can see how it speaks about God’s glory.  And then, why would we live separated from this mighty Creator, if he created the world and everything above it, didn´t he created us as well and has a perfect plan for our lives? 

But as all things in this world: choices destroy our chances. And we chose, to be separated from Him. Because of sin we were set apart from God. Because we rebelled against his creation by destroying ourselves, while being away from his love. 

But God, in his loving nature, sacrificed his only son so that we could have intimacy with him and that is through Jesus. It´s like sin closed a door to which we didn´t have a key, but Jesus has destroyed the lock and opened the door wide open. 

He has big fire eyes, speaks words of truth that expose your diluteness of reality, lifts up with his savior arms and hands that uncover hidden eyes, dressed up in garments of purity, breaths life…

When I gaze up into Him I remember my own black pit of sin from which he took me out of. I don´t regret, but I am deeply grateful for having a memory on which I can look back and love him for extending his hand on my life. Because if I didn´t acknowledge His work in my life I would be resting importance to his power.

Independence and Pride are the heart of the sinful nature. Through the past months, God has revealed to me that I need to depend on Him, because when I do, things make more sense than without Him. And to abolish the pride parasite, I need to look at myself and everyone else through his eyes.