Only in believing can we seriously say of ourselves, “We have left undone those things which we ought to have done. And we have done those things that we ought not to have done. And there is no health in us.”28 Not a report of events, but a self-acknowledgment, a valid form, we might say, of the notorious Cogito ergo sum. In that acknowledgment, drawn from us by the living presence of the God against whom we have sinned, there is a new discovery of the self.
