It is important to understand that the essence of sin is not morality or immorality but our claim to our right to ourselves. It is self and its inherent selfishness that is at the core of sin. This selfishness can drive us to lie, cheat, steal and kill. Before we get to feeling too smug, sin can also drive us to strive for an appearance of godliness for the approval of men.
The heart of man is revealed in temptation. Man knows his sin, which without temptation he could never have known; for in temptation man knows on what he has set his heart.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Warning: It is all too easy to do the convenient thing instead of the godly thing.
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