I read this news story and couldn’t help but think of 2 Corinthians 7:10, especially when I read the bolded part:
A woman apologized Friday for a “bad decision” in helping her 6-year-old daughter win tickets to a Hannah Montana concert with an essay that falsely claimed the girl’s father died in Iraq.
A false essay won a 6-year-old girl four tickets to a sold-out Hannah Montana concert.
Priscilla Ceballos said she hadn’t intended to mislead the contest sponsor but got caught up in helping her daughter “realize her dream of seeing Hannah Montana.”
“Instead I brought so much negative attention to my family,” Ceballos said, reading a statement on NBC’s “Today” show. “Please accept my heartfelt apology and please do not punish my child for my mistake.“
It is truly heartbreaking that someone in this situation considers the worst part of their sin to be not the sin itself - lying, and causing her daughter to lie. Rather, she considers the worst part her sin to be one of the just consequences - negative attention. Isn’t that simply replacing a sin of lying, with one of pride?
It is also very telling that she does not consider her child, who wrote and submitted the essay, to have also made a mistake.
Proverbs 22:66 Train up a child in the way he should go;
even when he is old he will not depart from it. (ESV)
Tags: consequences, grief, hannah montana, miley cyrus, proverbs, regret, sin
