A Matter of Time
What is the root of all sin?
Traditional answers include idolatry, pride, selfishness and greed. These answers are very similar to each other as the differences may be more semantics than anything else. I recently found an answer which puts a slightly different spin on the answer to the above question.
Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar writes in A Theology of History (36-37):
What tells us more than anything else that Jesus' mode of time is indeed real is the fact that he does not anticipate the will of the Father. He does not do that precise thing which we try to do when we sin, which is to break out of time, within which are contained God's dispositions for us, in order to arrogate to ourselves a sort of eternity, to ‘take the long view’ and ‘make sure of things.’ ... God intended man to have all good, but in his, God?s, time; and therefore all disobedience, all sin, consists essentially of breaking out of time. ... Hence the importance of patience in the New Testament, which becomes the basic constituent of Christianity, more central even than humility; the power to wait, to persevere, to hold out, to endure to the end, not to transcend one?s own limitations, not to force the issues by playing the hero or the titan, but to practice the virtue that lies beyond heroism, the meekness of the lamb which is led. [emphasis added]
God does intend to give us all good things—in his time. Unfortunately when we try to bring that time into the present, we demonstrate greatly our mistrust of God's goodness and timing.