Comments on: subtle penance http://www.mikes3cents.com/uncategorized/subtle-penance/ Description goes here Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:15:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Paul http://www.mikes3cents.com/uncategorized/subtle-penance/comment-page-1/#comment-158 Paul Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:40:56 +0000 http://www.mikes3cents.com/?p=231#comment-158 Your words are a reminder to me of how I often underestimate the effect of man's 'Fall from Grace' that took place in the Garden of Eden. Genesis 3:6 reveals, "When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it." The wisdom that our first parents gained in consuming the fruit was, and continues to be, the type of wisdom that we humans use to come up with a host of strategies apart from God, such as the "subtle penance" about which you write! I pray that Jesus would continue to point out these dead-end works in my life and the lives of His children and daily help us, as you conclude, to "enjoy Him in the rich moments of grace and faith." "He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life...So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in Him, rooted and built up in Him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness"(Titus 3:5-7; Colossians 2:6-7). Your words are a reminder to me of how I often underestimate the effect of man’s ‘Fall from Grace’ that took place in the Garden of Eden. Genesis 3:6 reveals, “When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it.” The wisdom that our first parents gained in consuming the fruit was, and continues to be, the type of wisdom that we humans use to come up with a host of strategies apart from God, such as the “subtle penance” about which you write! I pray that Jesus would continue to point out these dead-end works in my life and the lives of His children and daily help us, as you conclude, to “enjoy Him in the rich moments of grace and faith.”

“He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life…So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in Him, rooted and built up in Him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness”(Titus 3:5-7; Colossians 2:6-7).

]]> By: Ali http://www.mikes3cents.com/uncategorized/subtle-penance/comment-page-1/#comment-155 Ali Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:36:26 +0000 http://www.mikes3cents.com/?p=231#comment-155 What a healthy and necessary reminder halfway through Lent. What a healthy and necessary reminder halfway through Lent.

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