Sin's Tell-Tale Heart and Forgiveness in Christ
By Pastor Benjamin Glaser - Posted at Thoughts from Parson Farms:
Published May 12, 2026
Dealing With the Seemingly Sisyphean Task of the Law's Demands
Good Morning,Much of the Christian life is dealing with the conviction of the Holy Spirt and understanding the blessing it is to know that God loves you enough to move you to repentance. The struggle is one of the ways we can testify that the Lord seeks our good. That may seem backwards, but notice how the saintest of saints in the Bible all speak to the way that they feel their sin. It is part of why they so sweetly talk of the power and strength of the free gift of grace. When we are being honest about our transgressions of the law and our desire to no longer fall in those ways, when we are repenting from what we have done and looking unto the finished work of Christ there is a true comfort which God has promised to lay on us. A lot of people are carrying around the burden of sin without knowing where to put it. They drag it from day to day, never finding peace, and wailing for relief into the darkness of nothingness.
There is a famous story in mythology where a fellow is pushing a rock up a hill only to come near to the top and see the rock fall back down, and there he starts again. This fellow named Sisyphus is a good example from secular literature that wisely describes what most people’s fight with the weight of sin looks like. They are trying to toss their anguish into the bottom of the pit but cannot get it there for a couple of reasons. First, they love their sin more than they hate the pain. They are willing to put up with the consequence to remain in the temporal fun of the sin. Second, they don’t really believe those consequences will happen to them. They spend a lot of their time gaslighting their own souls, shifting blame to whoever is easiest and/or nearby. For today’s prayer and worship help we are going to talk some more about the nature of the sting of sin and how it is we can rightly rid ourselves of the negative aspects of conviction, and see it as part of the blessings of God’s gift and grant of faith and our place in His covenant kingdom. Hope is freely available for all sinners in Christ.
