Most people always have a question why one
easily falls back to sin after having gone for repentance. Most people have
argued it out and many more still will come to argue it out that man is prone
to sin. I would not really conquer with them nor refute their ideas for they
believe that. Rather I would wish to evaluate this from using a lens of
vacation.
A vacation is an
extended period of recreation, especially one spent away from home or in
traveling or the action of leaving
something one previously occupied as mostly described on the net or
the dictionary. Defining it etymologically would draw us back to a Latin word “vacare”
meaning “to be empty” and would be the colour of my lens.
Many times when we go for the sacrament of
penance, we take a vacation from sin and in so doing have emptied ourselves of
sin. We forget that the space left vacant has to be filled with God’s grace and
love. We move on back to our secular world without first filling that empty
space. This has to be occupied so as to prevent the day-to-day fall into sin.
One might then go ahead to challenge me by asking why some people still sin
when they are sure that the space has been filled. My answer is simple, the
space is “half-filled” and only full-filled by God.
And unless we
always come back to the Father and allow Him to half-fill us as we live, for we
know we shall be full-filled when we see Him as He really is, we are prone to
always fall back into sin. I would implore you to always try to ask for God’s
grace to always get up when we fall.
Ainomugisha
Matthew