It is honorable to refrain from strife; but every fool is quick to quarrel.–from Proverbs 20
Sometimes uncomfortable memories appear from nowhere reminding me of the time of life when I was quick to quarrel. Mostly I was quiet, but sometimes there would be a trigger.
I still must watch for that even though many years of meditation have rewired my brain.
Who can say, “I have made my heart clean; I am pure from my sin?”–from Proverbs 20
A few men worked in our department in the manufacturing plant who attended the same small country church. They told us that having been “saved by Jesus” they were “made pure from sin and therefore could sin no more.”
There was a 10-minute break time in the mid-morning and mid-afternoon and a 30-minute lunch period. We were all paid by the hour to perform certain assigned work. They had a habit of meeting during those three break periods for prayer. Their prayers might, and usually did, run for much longer than their break time.
Did they not think that getting paid to work and then not working was a sin?
Last night I was reading in Matthew where Jesus upbraided the Pharisees for making up rules that allowed them to circumvent the Laws of Moses.
The human mind is able to justify anything, I guess.
Where am I, where are you, sinning by commission or omission yet calling it not sin?
Faith Venture 
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