"And to this our blessed Lord answered full meekly and with full lovely cheer, and shewed that Adam's sin was the most harm that ever was done, or ever shall be, to the world's end...Furthermore He taught that I should behold the glorious Satisfaction: for this Amends-making is more pleasing to God and more worshipful, without comparison, than ever was the sin of Adam harmful."
Julian of Norwich (Ch. 29)
It's as if, when Adam fell, that he became blind and couldn't see the truth anymore. He couldn't see God right there present with him, friendly, open-hearted, generous and good. And he couldn't see himself in God's good image and likeness, a good creation of God and in fact, God's own offspring. Without knowing or remembering how good God is or how good he was, Adam 'fell' in his mind into confused thinking. Believing you are alone, rejected, and shameful breeds a host of other bad feelings and actions. It is like a death to the soul. Adam even suffered physical corruption and death. The worst thing had happened - humanity had lost sight of God and their origin in the Trinity family. But we are not to focus on that 'losing sight' and all the terrible things that came after. We are to focus on what Christ did in making everything right and beautiful! It is like he healed our blindness so we could see God right in front of us in the person of Christ and see how loving, good, generous, nonthreatening, healing and kind God is. And the way Christ treated humanity shows us who we are - lovable, precious, cared for children of God who are worth helping and healing. Christ healed our biggest sickness by loving us and showing us we are lovable. He healed the inner ache of shame and alienation we have so often felt by giving us Himself to be with us always through His Spirit. And He rescued us from all that was harming us - sin, shame, corruption, lies and death are defeated and we are risen in His life to a new and beautiful world of eternal springtime with Him! This is where we were always meant to be, in beautiful, perfect, everything-right relationship with the Trinity forever! This wonderful work Christ did to satisfy our need for love, to make amends for all that had gone awry, is so pleasing to God that it is worth praising forever. Yes, sin caused terrible things, but God brought infinitely more beautiful things to us through the Son. Grace is always so much greater than any sin!
"Though sin is shown to be wide and deep, thank God his grace is wider and deeper still! The whole outlook changes—sin used to be the master of men and in the end handed them over to death: now grace is the ruling factor, with righteousness as its purpose and its end the bringing of men to the eternal life of God through Jesus Christ our Lord."
Romans 5:20-21 (PHILLIPS)
A Prayer: Thank You, Jesus for rescuing me from blindness and giving me the loving relationship I have always longed for! I love being loved by You!