Devotion of the day: beware of being sinners

The sinner will see and be angry. Thus says the prophet David, inspired by God. He will see that God who despised or believed indifferent to the actions of man; he will see and know the benefits received and God's warm concerns to save him; he will see that Jesus pierced by him with sins, with blasphemies, with the outpouring of passions; he will see the number and gravity of his sins… then he will be angry with himself: “Oh fool that I was! How foolish!… ". What, then, will repentance do? Too late!…

The sinner will tremble. If it had not been easy for the sinner to convert, if he had ignored the way, if he had not been warned, if the example of others had not stimulated him to good, if he could say: God wanted me damned; he would console himself in the impossibility of saving himself; but none of this ... What a thrill in knowing that everything depended on him, and it was voluntary and free to live as a sinner! ... Think about it while you are in time.

The sinner's desire will perish. He hoped to enjoy two paradises, in this and in the other world: he will see that he was wrong; he will desire mercy from his Judge: but justice has taken the place of mercy; he will want to convert, make amends with penance, satisfy the enormous debts contracted with God; but, then, such a desire is useless! Plunged into eternity, under the lightning of God, the sentence will be terrible, irrevocable. It all depends on you ... What do you solve?

PRACTICE. - Always live in the grace of God, to always be ready to present yourself to judgment; says the Miserere.