Danger Zones that will upset us

Danger Zones that will upset us

As we journey along the road there will be warning signs alerting us to slow down or keep an eye open for danger that may inhibit our trip.  As a diabetic the glucose monitor I must use also does the same thing.  If I take my insulin too early, such as in the afternoon my morning reading can drop below 60.  Regulating the hour I inject the insulin makes a difference as to diabetic shock or normal regulation.  

The same scenario is how we steer away from temptation at the most vulnerable moments in our walk among the dangers that we see and ignore their grasp on us.  If any of us is weak in a certain temptation we must look for the road signs warning us that ice is ahead and an accident is imminent unless we slow down.  We can speak of a slippery slope when the pleasure that calls you or I and far too many people take the warnings as simply hyper-bole with blinders as our dress.

Far too many have found that disobeying the signs that will cause an accident have destroyed their lives and the lives of their families or close associates.  Anyone of us has the propensity to slip when entering the danger zones that only they know and still ignore the wrong signs.  Some of those signs have their names written upon the pleasures that sin will call us to enjoy without taking the proper medicine to avoid a sickness or spiritual death.  If I do not use the insulin and other meds in the proper manner I could go into shock or die.  If someone who continues to see only the signs of sinful attention will also find themselves in the throws of sin that once wipes away caution that the Holy Spirit constantly convicts that person, a tragic end is bound to take over.  

Unintentional ignorance can diminish or even remove the imputability of a grave offense.  But no one is deemed to be ignorant of the principles of the moral law, which are written in the conscience of every man.  The promptings of feelings and passions can also diminish the voluntary character of the offense, as can external pleasures of pathological disorders.  Sin committed through malice, by deliberate choice of evil, is the greatest.  (CCC 1860).

For what the law, weakened by the flesh, was powerless to do, this God has done; by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for the sake of sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, so that the righteous decree of the law might be fulfilled in us, who live not according to the flesh but according to the spirit.  (Rom 8: 3 - 4).

Because Christ took upon himself our sin and destroyed its hold on each human person by being the very sin of all people his death on the Cross was the only way that God would accept the ransom paid in full.  Jesus bowed his head and said, “It is finished.”  (Jn 19: 30).

Ralph B. Hathaway