The Bad in Your Good

It is the king of disease, for it's the source of all that ails. Death is its result.

Its effect is instantaneous on every one of us from the very moment of birth.

No matter the health of our parents, our country of origin or the sterility of the delivery room. It's corrupting. Warping our judgements, our minds and our perceptions.

It turns our hearts cold and selfish, and coats everything we are and do in a blackness worse than any dark our eyes can see. It elevates our view of what we can accomplish but holds the ladder we can never ascend. It's the source of everything wrong, bad, corrupt, and and evil and it stands in opposition to all that is good and holy. It is our curse and is woven into our very nature, impossible for us to free ourselves or separate our 'good' parts from. And its the reason we are guilty.

It is called sin.

When you skin your knee or bang your elbow in a touch football game, the resulting injury, small or large, is a result of a fundamental change that occurred in the nature of our world and our existence a long time ago. Weeds that infect your wife or girlfriend's garden, the sweat you break out in when you mow the lawn, or the anger you feel toward your neighbor when he tells you to shut off your leaf blower because its too early in the morning for yard work. Everything big or small, trivial or critical, owes its existence in our world to sin.

Think of a world as perfect as you can imagine. No death, hate or anger. No pollution, disease or decay. Nothing that you and I would call evil or wrong. True peace and harmony in the world. In a word, Eden. If this is difficult for you to imagine (you'll notice its like visualizing the one million individual things accurately, in other words impossible for the human mind to comprehend,) don't be surprised. You can't. The curse of a nature corrupted by sin makes it impossible for any one of us to picture or understand such perfection. The destructive power of sin crushes our capacity to think about things that are completely good and perfect. It is so destructive in fact that everything about it, every effect it has on us and our world results in one thing. Death.

Death is the result of the corrupting and destructive power of sin. None of us would die, and nothing in our world would suffer the effect of sin's power had not something changed for us at some point in time.

And such a change did take place. All of mankind, created eternal, individual and distinct are cursed as a result of the actions of one man. The first man. Our genetic numero uno. The guy who dropped the ball for the world and all of the human race. When he screwed up we all inherited the punishment for his crime. His name was Adam and when he disobeyed the one who had written the rules and the one who had no choice but to uphold the rulebook, we all, because of God's eternal nature and the eternal quality of our creation, paid and are paying the price. So much so that even the good we think we do is really in the eyes of a perfect and holy God, bad.

There is no good even in the 'good' we think we do after we've been cursed by sin.

The Hard Truth is Adam, by disobeying our creator, brought death to all of us by the curse of sin entering the world.

And we're all guilty by association. Call it genetic conspiracy.

Hard to believe? Kind of like counting to 1,000,000,000,000,000. Doesn't mean with enough time and effort it can't be done. Doesn't mean its not possible or that there are no numbers that high. It just means it's hard or is seemingly impossible. It's just a Hard Truth.