"Where sin abounds, Grace abounds all the more!"

First I want to say, I am sorry I can't seem to comment on my Blog. I can make a post and edit a post but can't comment. It's frustrating! I am not ignoring anyones comments I just can't reply. However, I think most people who might read my blog know of other ways to contact me if they want to talk about anything I post. I welcome any feedback always!  If I ever say anything in my blog that does not seem sound biblically I welcome correction and discussion on that.  If you don't like what I say for personal reasons instead of Christian/Catholic reasons it is not likely that it will have any effect on my writting but I still welcome any comments.
Now on to my topic today:

I can't recall now if it was Fr Matt or Father Greg who I first heard say that despair, not trusting in salvation, is a sin. It is a long standing teaching of the church but the first I heard it was from one of those two priests in 2009 or 2010. We must know that God did come to forgive all sins. 

This morning I was listening to Pastor Ed Taylor on 89.7 Grace FM.  Even though he is not a Catholic Pastor I still really get a lot out of listening to him.  Today, among a few other things, he was talking about trusting in God's abounding grace.  He quoted Romans 5:20 "Law came in to increase the trespass; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more," He spoke about sin of the past being past and not to allow the enemy to cause us to despair due to our already forgiven sins.  Pastor Ed's message today was very good as usual for him and there was at least one other matter he spoke about that I am contemplating further. I won't comment on it yet, that is not where my focus is right now but I will consider it along with other messages from Scripture, tradition, Mass and from the Priests.

At the end of Ed Taylor's radio message is when I arrived at church for mass.  The responsorial Psalm was
 "I trust the mercy of God forever"  So while I repeated this Psalm verse several times for the mass it called back to mind what Pastor Ed had spoken about on the radio and that despair is a sin, as well as thinking about my last post about sin, about my dream.  The readings and the homily were about other things, and I did pay attention to and learn from those as well, however my main focus was on the responsorial Psalm at this mass. 

It is good to have conviction of sin. It is good to avoid sin.  If we are in any state of sin we do need to confess and repent. It is never good to dwell on past sin once it has already been forgiven us. Thanks be to God! 

Now what this message God is giving me today means for my dream and my last post, I am not 100% certain.  I don't want to speculate too much but I do think I need to remember not only the lessons I have learned about sin and about avioding sin in the future, I also need to remember that my past sins are already forgiven. Amen!