Sin

I got some fish for lunch, today . After many rinses, when convinced it was clean, it went into a dish to be marinated. Setting it aside off I went to scrub the smell off me . Using soaps and oils I washed myself, but alas, as usual the stench clung to my hands . Scrubbing repeatedly, I tried to get rid of it totally but traces of it still remained.

The fish had arrived from the butcher dressed and cleaned , yet it was not devoid of the smell, which was now on my skin . Though I tried hard to clean it off, the stench was stubborn and there remained a strong remanent of it . I was then reminded, is it not like our sins ? We are tainted by sin when we are born in this world. Some we commit, some only by association, but there is no escaping it .

Our efforts to rid ourselves of the sin that has permeated our very being, our attempts to purify ourselves by good deeds, are all in vain. Nothing can succeed, except the cleansing by the Divine , by the blood of our Lord Jesus, which was spilt for us . We have to acknowledge and know that our Salvation comes only from the Holy One, a free gift , which we can either accept or reject, the choice belongs to us.