So the other day, my girlfriend named a new teddy bear after a pretty good-looking guy we both know. Big deal? Probably not. Did it hurt? A little.

But that got me thinking about something my professor told me; in the original Hebrew, the 10 commandments aren’t written like laws are supposed to be written, they’re written like a traditional marriage covenant would be written.  Basically, the idea is that we are cheating on God with sin.

That kind of sort of changed the way I think of sin. I remember how much something as little as a teddy bear’s name can hurt, and I try to imagine magnifying that pain. 

Will I sin again? Yep. Will I take sin a lot more seriously from now on and do it as little as possible? Absolutely.