It Doesn’t Compare

Oh. Oh. Oh.

I think I am just now
beginning to understand
something
with new eyes.

About sin.
About forgiveness.
About comparing.
About me.

I am always
comparing
my sin to his sin.
My sin to your sin.

And
when I compare
I begin to think
that
I
am
okay.

But
we cannot place our sins
on some sin scale
and measure them along those lines.

Other people’s sins
are
the wrong reference point.

The wrong point entirely.

It’s not about
my sin
compared to
your sin.

It never has been.

It’s only
about
my sin
compared to
the cost
Christ
already paid.

(We can only
compare
ourselves
to a
sinless Christ
who died
for a
sinful
me.)