Day 5 To err is human… to deny personal responsibility is as old as day one. Adam blamed Eve; Eve blamed the serpent. Today, we blame culture, or our parents, or our economy. It is popular to allow sin for such extreme cases as Hitler and Stalin. That puts the responsibility far off and makes us the judge. As far as I can tell, there is but one Judge and you are not Him. What if all rebellion was judged the same? The problem of sin is not just reserved for the worst. C.S. Lewis understood the problem and the deadly trap we all fall into when we imagine our ‘little’ sins are far safer than ‘big’ sins. In his Screwtape Letters, Screwtape says to his junior tempter, “The only thing that matters is the extent to which you separate the man from the Enemy. It does not matter how small the sins are, provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed the safest road to hell is the gradual one.” A small view of sin requires a small sacrifice for sin. In our sinful condition, we cannot possibly understand the horrors of sin, like our Father does. If our sin is only a minor inconvenience, we begin to think that we can atone for it ourselves. We begin to set up a Bell Curve for our actions. This is exceptionally dangerous. When we understand that sin is far worse than we can imagine or think, then we know that we are separated from God and that only He can save us through His sacrifice. It is only then that our view of sacrifice is properly defined. That is the primary message of the book of Leviticus and especially the first chapter. Like our page and Share!!!