You have
mercy on all because you love
all things that are. Wisdom
11:22-12:2
A
single grain of sand or a
single drop of morning dew
looks quite small. And it is.
When God looks upon each of us,
we look quite small. And we
are.
We feel
especially small when we become
aware of our sins. We
acknowledge with some
embarrassment the evil we have
done, the people we have hurt,
the lies we have told and the
cover-up we have made. The
awareness of our sin fills us
with remorse and diminishes our
stature. If our sin becomes
public, we want to hide, to go
home and to make ourselves as
small as we possibly can.
We do
all this as if we could hide
from God, but we cannot. God
notices the tiniest grain of
sand and the single drop of
morning dew. And God notices
us. God notices the tiniest
things we do - for good or for
ill.
When we
sin, when we feel small, we
need not hide from God. We can
appear before God quite openly
and acknowledge the wrong we
have done. God will forgive.
God sees the intimacy of our
lives and loves it.
As the
book of Wisdom says, “You have
mercy on all, because you can
do all things; and you overlook
people’s sins that they may
repent.”
