You have said it before and I have, too, to a friend, your husband or wife: "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to say that. I'm just not myself today." And then maybe you have heard it said: "He's not really a bad boy; he's just trying to find himself." Or perhaps you have used this expression: "He's not human, he's an animal." Perhaps also you have said this about your boss: "He thinks he's God Almighty."1

All these expressions describe the contradiction that plagues all of us -- that I am not, you are not, what we think we are. In the Bible it is called sin. Sin means we are not and we do not act as we should. In the Middle Ages some men and women wanted to love God with all their heart, mind, and soul. So they reasoned that they first had to know the Word of God. But then they reasoned that the…