Bigger, better, more beautiful, harder and then more

I was having filtered coffee at a farm. It was harvest time. Workers could be heard outside harvesting crops and loading trucks. He was pretty tired from recording the Sunday sermon.

Suddenly a man entered. I recognized it from somewhere, but couldn’t make the connection. Then I remembered that he had attended his wedding, a lavish event. But the man in front of me was quite different from the man at the wedding.

Slowly he began to describe his life to me. Many times, she would wake up hungover in the morning with no idea how she had ended up in bed. She didn’t even know whose bed she opened her eyes to. She did not remember how many tequilas she drank before disconnecting or which woman she accompanied to bed.

I just needed a beer to get to the right place to go back to the night.

He said that money was never an issue. The big casinos bought him plane tickets to get there and then everything was on the house. As long as he continued to use his shiny gold, purple and black cards at the tables.

And when the money ran out, he got back on the plane, bought a few things, and the cash register clinked his bank account. He drove the most expensive cars, and when the alcohol didn’t have enough of an effect, he turned to the white lines.

Bigger, better, more beautiful, harder and then more.

But it was not enough. She even lost a few women along the way. The psychologist told his parents to forget that they ever had a child. There is no medication…

But now it is different. He smiles all the time. He looks at you differently. He speaks different.

He drives an ordinary car and says that money is no longer important. He just wants to know God more and more. Three to four hours a day he just wants to drink in the knowledge of God, because you see, she ran into God.

The living and almighty God touched him and kept him from self-destruction by believing in the plastic dreams of the world. Even the farmer at the table lowered his head and murmured, “A miracle.”

And before my eyes I see the greatest impact of this verse in practice: 26… But he sacrificed himself once and for all, summing up all other sacrifices in this sacrifice of himself, the final solution of sin.

Holy Scripture

Hebrews 9:23-28

Reflection

Where is sin still trapped in your life?

Is Jesus’ forgiveness enough for that?

Now what?

Prayer

Jesus, what a great act you committed on the cross! To take the punishment for all my sins. It’s too big for me to fully understand, but I take it over and over and live it. Amen.