Accomplishing goals and ambitions is never a solitary journey. Not only do we need other people, we need God. But, we need to nourish our relationships to get this help, including our relationship with God.
So, what hinders this connection to the Creator? Our sin! Often tied up into the ambition itself! Big things and small things can trip us up. That is the real lesson of Achilles’ Heel, that the small things, or the big things we minimize, can be our undoing.
I read today that sin crouches at the door waiting to pounce. To personify this we can use the Devil. Our enemy. He is the Great Psychologist but certainly not of the helping kind! He whispers assurances that things are fine with sin, that the sin is not a big deal.
Sin will be cast in contrast to the non-sin (notice I didn’t say “good”) that we do so that it can seem smaller than it is. The demon whispers into our ear because he knows how the human mind works. This is really the inheritance of sin, the egotistical ability to judge the significance of our activities. To exercise our knowledge of good and evil and focus only on our good and not on our evil.
The crouching killer awaits at the door. “just one more time!” Our addiction can scream. There is never just one more time. As the old AA saying goes “One is too much and never enough.”
So I am aware of my heel. Otherwise I may be invulnerable but for the heel (or maybe more than one heel, having not been fully dipped into the River Styx!)
These things we face so that God can be our partner, the cause, of our success in fulfilling his plan.
Mark K.