Throwing Down the Stones

I have found throughout my life, although it should not be so, that our life events effect our theology, many times, more than our theology effects our life.  We think things are horribly awful sins with no way around it until we find ourselves in such sins, or our kids or loved ones struggle through the horrors of sinful entrapments.  Feeling the struggle ourselves or watching those we love struggle with them causes us to loosen our grip on those things that we grab onto as so awful.  Now that should not be, sin is sin and all of it is wrong.  We need not make light of it because we or ours are involved in it and we need not make it a big deal because you and yours is involved in it.  Sin is sin.  Instead we need to focus upon acknowledging ours for what it is, walking away from it, and not be so concerned about those of others.  That is unless our concern is one to love them back in a right relationship.  Throw the stones down!  We are just being a distraction to ourselves and to others in the long journey. Or as Jesus said in John 8:7- And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, "Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.  Today, strive to live your lives on the Rock and put the stones away.