Believe me, I looked. That s how I felt in that moment. Anything but blessed, that s for sure. In the presence of such awesome holiness, I felt anything but holy. Just the opposite, really.
Sin is just a part of everyday life.
People are people, after all. We do what we have to in order to get by - everybody does, kings included. Then we come to the Temple to make it right, to wash away what we pollute ourselves with every day. And I, as a priest, was in the washing business - taking people s offerings and presenting them before the Lord in the holy of holies. I had already gotten so used to it all that I hardly gave it a second thought, until that moment I found myself in the presence of the Almighty.