Sin

 We are created out of love and for love. Our problems start when to let us move away from the source of love to go our own way. In the following, Jacques Lebreton describes the worst thing that can happen to a person: It all started at El Alamein in Egypt during the Battle of 1942. I was a driver in a military truck. One day my colleague, I don’t know why, fired a grenade and threw it put it in my hands. The moment I noticed that it was exploding and that I would not have time to make it, he threw it away. And it really exploded. I only heard a terrible noise that still sounds in my ears today. The night came quickly. They immediately took me by ambulance to the operating room. Fifteen days later, my nurse said, “Don’t worry, even one of your colleagues, who was also blind, after the regained vision. ” So I learned I was blind, he hoped; however, I will see again after the operation. Man is created to hope. In this state, I came to Damascus. At the time, I still couldn’t know that in those times, he watched over me the mysterious plan of God by which I would discover one day a much more important light than the one I lost. The hospital bed was my desert, desert before the meeting.

At this place of suffering, I asked Jesus Christ, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy above me. Have compassion for my human condition. I long for the immense, and I am limited and poor; I feel the need for the absolute, and all that surrounds me is limited and small. And you, Lord, who are you? ” After four months, I found out I didn’t even have hands. I hadn’t noticed it before because I was bandaged, and it seemed normal to me to nurse at all they help. And then such a terrible discovery. The blow was too hard for me to do endure. Two paths opened before me: to accept it peacefully or the arc that has me, he lured me to throw myself down. Then I rebelled against God and cried out, “Father, if you’re good, you can do it! But if your goodness is limited to the promise of a happy eternity, keep that promise to yourself because I no longer care. I was a victim of inhuman suffering, and I am not a superman. “

And God answered me. There was still a way for me to understand God’s plan, and the answer came in the form of a challenge: to learn to live as blind and hands-free. “Get up and go!” She said the response to human suffering. I accepted the challenge, and the results were amazing. I managed to win over myself to such an extent that I asked, “But where do I get from such a force? “-” I will give you the power of the Spirit to come upon you, “Jesus Christ replied. Thus, thanks to the Spirit, I accepted the plan from above: I am blind and without hands. That is reality. And I started crying with joy. I won my most important battle of life.

My friends asked me how I managed to maintain the strength I could
to give courage to others in the hospital. I returned to France with a great desire for life. A girl told me: “Just because you don’t have eyes or hands doesn’t mean you can be denied the right to happiness.” We got married and had five children. A man full of entrepreneurship was born in me. I joined the association of the blind, and I worked in it to help improve the condition of many of my blind people friends. I was human like everyone else and had a good economic position. My mind and my heart were like me in the service. But six years after that explosion grenade, I lost my initial motivation and soon began to look at my work if the idol. I no longer performed it for someone but something. In My whole activity, she was in a position of me. I didn’t even have time for prayer anymore because I had much more to do. I could do on my own the things that were for my necessary, and I thought I no longer needed God.

Deprived of the motivation of faith, I distanced myself from God. The emptiness soon arose in me, which I tried to fill by joining the Communist Party. I rebelled against God and the Church. The consequences were not long in coming: I wanted to divorce her wife, but she disagreed. One day, a friend of mine took me to the mystical soul of Marta Robin. Deep I was moved by her simplicity and came out of her room quite quietly. I started again with his prayer life: “Father, I do not understand anything. I had faith, but I lost it. Now I found her again. Show me in my life. ” In October 1960, a light shone on my night, and all the shackles fell from my hands. Could not I fall asleep all night, and my colleague heard me talking about God for two hours of mercy. Man can deny God, but God cannot deny man. I experienced God’s tenderness, compassion, and compassion infertility in my hospital bed, but I lacked the experience of his mercy.
I was not responsible for that terrible incident, but I also did. He could not feel innocent. No one is innocent. Being in danger for that I get lost, God allowed me to fall into activism, intending to give it to me later to know your mercy and your forgiveness. Today, reinforced by this experience, I dare say that the worst disease is not blindness or being without hands. The biggest misfortune in this world and the other is to distance oneself from God. God is mercy. God is tenderness.

Jacques Lebreton noticed quite well the most difficult problem for us humans: to move away from the Creator to walk the path of independence and rebellion, where we have been, the consequences will appear later. He who moves away from life cannot find others, only death. The most serious disease of man is sin, for everyone who sins is a slave (Johan 8.34), and the logical consequence of sin is death (cf. Rom 6:23), for who sows for his body, he will reap corruption from the body (Gal 6: 8). Sin is like armor that prevents us from experiencing God’s love. IN basically, we believe more in ourselves and our means than in God’s roads. It is a rebellion that seeks to make us independent of God that we are they have not tasted his redeeming love, for he separates us from others and divides us our soul in us. More than evil and forbidden deeds, it is a matter of preoccupation, an attitude of rebellion against God, moving away from his presence and ways. They have all sinned and lack God’s salvation (Romans 3:23) because Adam and Eve, who represent each of us, have strayed from God, experienced our nakedness, and been expelled from paradise symbolizes happiness to which God has invited us. It is a sin, the source of all the evil that afflicts humanity.