Jesus makes finding the balance between truth and mercy look so simple: “neither do I condemn you. Go and do not sin anymore”. Why isn’t it so simple for us today?
What we really want to hear today was recently explained in a simple sentence by a journalist not long ago: “if you want to be merciful, do not call it a sin”. This is today’s version of mercy. Mercy that chooses to ignore the reality of sin is mercy without truth and in the end, not mercy but blind cruelty.
We suffer today from a cultural disease that we could call the culture of pride. We do not like to acknowledge that we have sinned. We forget that to sin is normal, meaning, unavoidable. It is even more normal to acknowledge the sin than to ignore it. But for that, of course, we need a culture of humility.
