The Question

It is implied in Luther's mot "sin boldly" that we possess great power to sin. Henri Nouwen writes of sin as a powerlessness to do anything but fall short: sin as an enigma of impotency vs. an engine of importunity. Both, I suppose are true and either requires the intervention of God Himself to interrupt our waywardness in an act of might and grace that we might be saved. Might. The tentativeness of the assertion is betrayed in a synonym of 'power' itself and betrays the indeterminacy of certain perseverance and particular election. At the end of it all, I still must fall. Whether it is a fall forward on my face or a fall backward into waiting arms is the question of hourless time.