THE UNFORGIVEN SIN
Last night, before closing my eyes on the day’s work, I was meditating on a verse we find in the Gospel version according to St.Matthew; chapter 12, verse 32:

“Who soever shall speak a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but he who speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him neither in this world nor in the world to come.”

What a terrible declaration, what food for thought, how frightening, especially just before you go to sleep. BUT, there is a good explanatio,; these words, this declaration IS justified. Let’s go back two thousand years in the days of Jesus.

Those who spoke against the Rabbi from Nazareth, against Our Lord, who, on account of His humble appearance as the carpenter of Nazareth, who had not studied letters, and whose Mother and relatives they knew, and whom, therefore, they did not picture to themselves as the glorious Messiah, whom they expected, they sinned, indeed, BUT, they had a plea to mercy since their sin was one of human frailty,

Those, who when faced by an evident divine miracle, and attributed this same miracle to Belzebub, sinned of sheer malice, and, as far as in them lay, closed the door to mercy. By turning to sin the very means intended by God for their conversion, they frustrated the bestowal of the grace of repentance.

Had they repented, they would have been forgiven, for no sin is beyond pardon for those who repent, but of its nature their sin led to final impenitence. They sinned against grace; against the Holy Spirit. In which cases God overrides by the sovereignty of His mercy, must remain the secret of God. It is only by the grace of God that we can repent.