Who did you become this week? You made a multitude of choices this week. Some of those choices were certainly sinful. That tone of voice. That evasion of responsibility. That lingering covetous gaze. You never transgress God’s law through an accidental oopsie-daisy. You choose sin. And when you do so, you are consequently choosing the sort of person you will become.
Here’s one example. The choice of the fool is to say in his heart, “There’s no God.” As a result, he lives in the insanity of a world which does not and cannot exist. The fool is unstable in all his ways, and is only on his way to more and more instability. He chose to believe an impossible premise, and he’s stuck with trying to navigate this world, a world which God most certainly made, by continually redefining all the evidence which confronts him continually. He has to tell himself continual lies. Even in his twisted attempts to rationalize his insane worldview, he is using hardware manufactured by the Divine hand of God. The fool becomes continually more foolish.
Each and every choice, is like this. The choice to sin, regardless of the magnitude of the sin, is a choice to reshape the world into a senseless form. Sin is vibe-coding and the result will eventually be an fatal error message.
Nevertheless, God’s grace opens our eyes to see the impossibility of continuing to live within our twisted insanity. You can choose, even now, to repent of who you were on your way to becoming. In repentance, you refuse to become the fool, the murderer, the embittered miser. In humbling yourself through confession and repentance, you turn away from insanity, and you take a step towards becoming a real person. And what does a real person look like? Well, look at Jesus.
