7 deadly sins (Part 2)

sin is the exact opposite 

of GOD & GOOD 

To be clear, God is all good. Sin offends God.

All sin is offensive to God. There are various types of sin and varying degrees of sin and crimes.

well you know what God want if you read the Bible is far more interested  in your thoughts and in your feelings and in your words then even in your behavior

I ask you a question  what's the biggest problem in your life right now you might problems that you have in your life but that's not your biggest problem 

I am my biggest problem .

yourself more problems than 

anybody else

problems in in your decision-making now this is called your sin nature we all have it, 

 it's also called the law of sin  it's called the power of sin in your life. 

We stand to stumble on a surprising truth: behaviour we call sinful is never simply that.

It represents an unfortunate first response to difficulty and distress that could,

If  it were properly understood, guided and forgiven, be redirected towards nobler ends.

We aren't evil, so much as in a lot of pain in a series of areas.

 Let's consider each of the 

seven sins .

 1-Pride 

which sin is God most opposed to 

there's one that to highlight and it is a sin of pride

(Proverbs 8:13)

God said, 

i hate pride and arrogance 

 Pride leads to every other sin.

 it's a complete anti-god state  of mind god hates pride because it kills relationships.

It will keep you out of heaven because it will not and pride to any degree that creeps into our life is always toxic and poisonous .

our life is always toxic and poisonous especially to relationships. 

It can appear as if we end up boasting and grandstanding because we're so pleased with ourselves. Far from it. Boasting is only ever a response to  feeling of invisibility. 

We badly need to thrust forward an idea of our own importance because (behind the scenes) our very right to exist seems so much in question. We see it as almost inevitable that others will think ill of us unless we urgently and dramatically assert our greatness. That is why, of all people, the proud don't need to be told

they are terrible; this is precisely what they secretly think they are already. 

They need encouragement to feel a more genuine pride in their own merits .

 2-Envy 

is a graceless way of confronting an idea that is, in other contexts, fundamental to decent ambition as well as modesty of character: the notion that we are incomplete, imperfect and in need of improvement. 

Envy grows from the legitimate insight that others have something to teach us - mixed together with a degree of inaccuracy and panic about what this might

actually be. Envy should, ideally, be our teacher. We should note when it strikes us, sift through its confused signals and use them to work out our direction and purpose.

The solution isn't to be made to feel guilty for our envious attacks. It is to be helped to understand what is truly missing from our lives.

 3-Wrath 

The mean angry things we say when we're upset are almost never truly meant. 

They are the result of panic and anxiety.

We call someone a stupid fool because we are, that moment, terrified. We shout because we

feel we're fighting for our lives. 

Therefore, instead of being 

repeatedly told how appalling

it is to be angry (we of course know 

this quite well already), what we 

need is someone to demonstrate a 

proper understanding of our 

underlying fears. 'You must be 

scared is the kindest but also the most effective response to any angry outburst;

 it puts its finger on what is really going on. We need others to appreciate our fragility, not berate us for our roars. 

4-Gluttony 

We eat too many chicken wings and toasted sandwiches not because we're greedy, but because we are emotionally starving.

 We want love far more than we want calories;

 we're just at a loss as to how to find it.  So the solution isn't to be told to eat less  (as diet gurus and Christian theologians suggest); 

it is to be helped to discover new sources of kindness, security and emotional connection. 

Our appetite isn't essentially bad - 

it simply hasn't found its ideal target. 

Our excess weight is a symbol of our background emotional undernourishment. 

5-Lust 

 We want to keep jumping into bed

with people not out of degeneracy, 

but because we are lonely. 

Sex is the epitome of connection

and acceptance. 

The so-called 'bad' and erotic 

things we crave feel so exciting 

because we read them as proofs of 

someone else's open-ended 

affection, which is in such short

supply in ordinary life. Ideally we'd 

not be less lustful, we'd be clearer 

about we genuinely need from sex: 

which is acceptance of our messy, 

complex and all-too-human selves.

 

6-Sloth 

Laziness is really fear. We can't bear to get down to our work, because if we were to apply ourselves, we risk terrifying humiliation. 

We might not succeed as well as we'd like, we might find a task too hard, we may realise we're not yet equipped undertake it or be mocked by the world. 

These aren't failings so much as 

hugely understandable

anxieties. 

Behind our inaction is anticipated 

disaster; a catastrophizing mind. 

We will begin at last when the fear 

of doing nothing at all trumps the 

crippling fear of doing something 

badly. 

7-Greed 

The powerful urge to take more than our fair share is really a reaction to a feeling of deprivation; we've felt so neglected and vulnerable, 

we require ever more. Our fear is 

so entrenched, we're trying to keep 

it at bay by grabbing as much

as we can, as quickly as possible. 

To others, we may make look 

already advantaged and privileged;

inside we just feel desperate.

 In short, our 'sins' are not signs of being bad people.

They are the shape of our unmet needs take when we haven't found any better way of addressing them. 

We don't have to be berated or threatened with hell. 

We need an open affection that welcomes us as we are, a forgiveness that doesn't involve criticism and a tenderness

that delicately, without humiliation, locates our true vulnerabilities and encourages.