“Thanks,” she whispers to her dad. Adam is crying like a child. He just lets it all come out, absolutely uninhibited and stripped bare. Stella extends a hand to touch him. Adam watches her hand move, sees the fingers stretching out and meeting his skin. The tiny hairs on his arm stand up. “Does it feel good in your heart now?” Stella asks.
How did Adam feel at this point. Relieved? Guilty? Ashamed? Grateful? Condemned? Can Adam’s faith survive, after telling these lies.Bearing False Witness is one of the 10 commandments. Yes Jesus came to fulfil the OT laws for us. But, they are still principles that Jesus upholds in the NT. Forgiveness, Redemption, Peace, Restoration, Grace are all possible through Jesus. Yet to receive any of those gifts, an acknowledgement, confession of our wrong doing is needed. Along with heart felt genuine repentance & a move to turn away from that way of life. See Psalm 51. Only God knows the state of our hearts. But on judgement day there will be a reckoning of every man/women ever born. Before the throne of God.
