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| The Lighthouse Beam Vol. 10, #118 February, 2010 |
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SNOW WHITE & THE 7 DEADLY SINS As I sit here and gaze out my window, a beautiful sight comes before my eyes. A record snowfall is coming down and covering the earth. There are several references to snow in the Bible. In the book of Job, God says that He orders the snow to blanket the earth and no one can escape it. We find the description of the robe of the Lord on the Mount of Transfiguration in the gospels of Matthew and Mark as shimmering, glistening white. His hair is described as a blizzard of white in the Revelation of St. John. We may have heard sermons on the “seven deadly sins” also known as “capital vices” or “cardinal sins” consisting of wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony. Some churches divide those sins into two categories: “venial sins,” which are relatively minor and the more severe “capital” or mortal sins which destroy the life of grace and create the threat of eternal damnation. It is impossible to find such categorization in the Bible that agrees with this church tradition. All have sinned and all sin is sin and carries with it the wages of death. Here’s the good news that is found in Psalms 51:7 and Isaiah 1:18— we can have a snow-white life even if our sins are blood-red! Therefore, we are not under the condemnation of death (or deadly sins) but the resurrection of life because the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross washed us white as snow! Thanks be to God for His unspeakable gift! Rejoice in it today! cdl |