Voulez-vous Sinful Delicious?

Sin, sin, sin, sin, SIN!

Okie, having read those words, what are you thinking? (Other than that I'm nuts, 'k!)

I was surprised by the word this morning when one of my friends used it and it made me start to think about the issue of sin and people's avoidance of the word and whether we're blasé to the whole thing. Perhaps we avoid using the word "sin" because it sounds all Spanish Inquisition/Dark Ages/Salem Witch Trials and confrontational. After all, it is a pretty finger-pointing word that you really can't rebut or refute, considering that we're all sinful and have fallen short of the glory of God.

But then I guess you get the thing of "Oh, they're a bigger sinner than *I* am, you know!" and we're always so good at seeing the specks in other people's eyes while we wander around with a length of 4x2 in our own eyes. But let's be honest. We're good at doing the sin thing, even when we don't want to be. And when we want to be, too, because sometimes sin is so damn fun.

No, I'm not saying we should go back to the Dark Ages and lock ourselves in convents/monasteries and crawl up 99 steps on our knees, kissing each step on the way, each time we feel we've done something wrong. I'm just thinking about sin and our responses to it. Maybe we don't want to call it "sin" because it's uncomfortable to do so, when we really should be uncomfortable with the sin (or sins).

I guess it requires or demands a change, too, for us to do something different and make an effort to not do the wrong thing. Sin's so everyday now anyways that it's sort of not seeming so pressing or whatever. I mean, we're all mostly desensitised to people being blown up in Iraq, stories of child abuse, murders (unless particularly gory like with Snowtown), blah blah blah... It just happens. And then with personal sins... well, that's all personal, isn't it? And if no-one finds out, then what's the matter with that?

Except for the fact that God knows all about it. At least He's willing to forgive us totally and forget about the sins completely IF we tell Him about them and ask for His forgiveness, which is pretty awesome :) But are we asking? I dunno... Are we too busy being like the Pharisee who was proud with his prayers and showing off with them rather than being like the tax collector who was humbling himself before God?