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For better or for worse, we became offended by our neighbour. So, we easily took them to court. To get the human judges to judge our case. Just to find out that our own transgressions are just as bad. But to cover it up, we feel so unembarrassed by it. Oh, for better or for worse, why do we not know our bounds?

We feign that we always want to work on ourselves. Therefore, man sits in the church on Sundays so sanctimoniously. One day so modest, the next day completely berserk. In this way we are not limited in our choices. But we pretend to stand oh so strong in our faith. Look, in our evilness, we do not know any measure or limit. But we console ourselves by telling ourselves that we are working on it.

“For better or for worse.” Yes, what is good and what do we have to get rid of? The tongue likes to speak badly of others. But the heart indeed knows a better way. The one day you are angered by your neighbour. The next day you feel so inexplicably nonchalant over the misdeed. All of us just prepare ourselves for the last big battle. Just to find, God also stored abundant compassion in our heart.

As often as we bind ourselves to sin, we can also become angry at the demons in and around us, just as quickly. Therefore, God shows us that there indeed is a better path. Look, there comes a day when each person will die. Just to realize that he did not obtain anything for his eternity out of himself.  While eternity now stretches out infinitely before the soul. The sinner so very much wants to inherit his bliss as child of God. So, what is chiseled into stone for you now, oh human? Because for better or for worse, to which one did you attach yourself, for eternity?