Sin is a wound of the soul


We are bad, mother! Only God is good. And that is why God became man: to give us the power to make ourselves good. Without His power, no man can be good. He can be decent… that is, if you don’t stir him up.

Come on, stir up a good man, see what he can do! No? Well, God heals us from wickedness, heals us from vulnerability to the suggestions of the evil one and from our nature which, being weak and having needs and weaknesses, these needs and weaknesses push us to be bad, in order to fulfill our needs. We no longer stand to ask for God’s help. So, the moment people are no longer in a living relationship with God, they do not give their sins to be lifted by God – the Son of God came to lift the sin of the world.

My sin is the poison of my life, which is poured out, first of all, on my children, in my family, then on my neighbors and around me! When I give my sin to God, He lifts it from me and gives me His grace. The atmosphere changes. The moment a person does not give at least four times a year, at least once a year, does not wash his soul of these sins, they become wounds. Sin is a wound, mother! Sin is a wound of the soul. And just as the wound of the body becomes infected with microbes and viruses, or what happens there, bacteria… so the wounds of the soul become infected with demons that nest in our spiritual wounds. And those demons are more active than the microbes.

Because in our body there are antibodies, which also kill the microbes. In our soul, the only antibody against the demons is God. And if we do not effectively put Him into our blood, into our mind, into our body, we are vulnerable and cannot defend ourselves. So, generations of generations have not confessed, man has accumulated sins, poisoned his life with these creatures that torment us, and our life has become a hell and we would like to feel like in heaven… Man has become more and more dependent on pleasure that makes you forget pain. And without this encounter with God, we remain slaves to pleasure, because this is the essence of the fall of man. And pleasure, if it is not immediate, produces pain.

Mother Siluana Vlad

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