NOTES for Mat 9:2

Psalmist said in the antiquity “Blessed, whose sins are forgiven”. Man suffers very hard the feelings of his sinfulness, particularly if this affection is unobvious and inconscient. The sense of guilty weights us down to the earth anxiously and dreary, and paralyses any creative activity. The feelings of our own imperfection or as psychologists say deficiency of positive selfevaluation move us perhaps stronger than hunger or thirst. This affection pushes us at times to absolutely awful things, and worst – it deprives us from happiness and feeling of plenitude and life meaningfulness.

All mankind experiences meet with the idea that our imperfection and guilt are closely connected with disasters and human’s sufferings. And it is really captivity, blockade, which we are unable to break. Therefore, it is very important to listen to these Christ’s words about forgiveness. He thereby opens indeed a new life for us, where we can be free and live meaningfully, fully and joyfully. And nothing is required for that: neither social society reorganization, nor titanic efforts to change our own biography… only belief that Christ’s words about forgiveness are true.