Relying Too Much on God's Forgiveness

This blog post is late. I owe God an apology. Fortunately, God is forgiving. Yet, we shouldn't depend too much on God's forgiveness. Unfortunately, I'm not sure it's possible to avoid relying too much on God's forgiveness.

We all rely on God's forgiveness to some extent, because we all sin. That's part of th human condition, virtually unavoidable. It's practically part of the plan. But while it may be okay to rely on God's forgiveness, it's not okay to do put ourselves into situations where we would need to. We need forgiveness because we sin, and it's not okay to sin.

We rely on God's forgiveness because we sin. The more we sin, the more we rely on God's forgiveness. In theory, if we never sinned, we would never need to rely on forgiveness. We rely on forgiveness too much when we sin too much, and any amount of sin is too much.

Yet, I may be thinking about this the wrong way. True, any amount of sin is too much to deem acceptable, but no amount of sin is too much for God to forgive. So, while I should never consider it acceptable to put off blogging too late (insofar as it is a sin for me to do so), I can always be forgiven for doing so, given that I repent of it.

So, it both is and is not possible to rely too much on God's forgiveness. It's possible to rely on forgiveness too much if we think that it will excuse our behavior, but it's not possible to rely on forgiveness too much to be forgiven. It's an odd paradox. It's never okay to sin, but if you do sin, as we all do, it can still be okay.