Before I start, these are my personal thoughts; I do not speak for the church or for anyone except myself.
I've been struggling lately with the effect sin has on God. How does my sin hurt or offend God. He's all powerful, why does it hurt him when I curse, or lie, or anything. Especially if I'm not doing anything to hurt someone else, why would that offend God? I realized tonight, that it hurts God when we sin, because it ends up causing ourselves pain, and it hurts God to see His children in pain and anguish. I would put forth the proposition that all problems in the world boil down to: a problem, conflict, hindrance, to achieving the simple desire of all human beings to love and be loved. Sin is at the root of all the crap that keeps us from properly loving others and being loved by others. All the pain and hurt and anguish in the world is because we can't properly love. This pain and hurt, pains our Lord beyond comprehension. He wants us to love and be loved. When we lie, we are breaking trust which is a necessity of intimacy which is vital to love. When we have premarital sex, we are partaking of something which we think is a route to love, but when we have not proclaimed our love and fidelity to the other before God and public, we are not allowing for true intimacy, which fosters the fullness of love. We seek sex as an easy way to intimacy, when it is just a false intimacy outside of marriage. All sins offend God, because they infringe upon our ability to be intimate with Him and others, which destroys our ability to love God and others. When He forgives us, He is restoring that intimacy. What is more intimate then bringing oneself before another, and making yourself vulnerable by admitting guilt and asking for forgiveness. This is why we speak our sins out loud to a priest. This is also why in order to truly restore relationships with others who are not God, we must confess, repent and ask forgiveness from them. Only then can we restore intimacy and true love with others.
Jesus suffered the agony of the passion; His brutal torture up to and on the cross, because He would rather endure that agony over and over for eternity, then see us destroy ourselves by destroying our relationship with Him and others through sin, with no recourse to forgiveness, no way of being brought back into the intimacy of His unconditional Love.
Thank You Lord, Jesus. Help me to always Love You, to remain in Your intimate wounds, to never forget Your Love and what you have done for me, so I can receive You Love perfectly.
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