If God is offended by sin, then the Saviour is glorified by the forgiveness that destroys it. He would seem to want to flood the prodigal sinner with His gifts. […]
‘Go then, my soul! […] As soon as you feel ill, please do not hesitate to go immediately to the Doctor. Go with as great a confidence as possible. For, it is indeed for your sake that He leapt out of His nuptial bed and with giant steps walked from the heights of Heaven. He came to free you from the sickness of sin because He knew that it is the sick and not the healthy who need the doctor.
‘How foolish are the sinners who seek an excuse to flee from the doctor, reasons that rather should inspire them with greater confidence to go to Him. How stupid is he who takes for an adversary the man who has come to heal him!’ […]
It is strange to flee without being pursued, but it is stranger still when an impious person flees with no one in pursuit. He flees even when divine Goodness is calling after him, and running after him with mercy and a remedy for his ills, with the promise of all he needs for his salvation!
TISSOT, Joseph.
How to Profit from Your Faults.
London: Scepter, 1996, p.81-82
