August 28, 2012
Sin is Still Sin
Paul asked in Romans if we should continue in sin, so that God’s grace can abound. And of course we know the reasonable and logical answer to a question of that nature would be absolutely not. Paul’s words were “God forbid.”
Yet today, we often do something that is probably far worse, we try to camouflage sin by either denying it is sin or trying to call it something else.
“Having God’s unconditional love does not mean having God’s unconditional approval.”
- Miles McPherson
Come now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain: whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that. But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil. To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
James 4:13-17
Often we will treat a brother or sister in the faith as an outcast and we call it justified for we feel they have earned such a treatment because of either a perceived or actual injustice we deem or feel they have perpetrated upon us: when God instructs us to forgive and love them.
Or we will deny someone access to our services of worship because they don’t dress right or don’t meet our standards of acceptability in some way or another: when Jesus said, “whosoever will, may come.”
Sometimes we try to masquerade as truth; veiled deception under the guise of being sensitive to others feelings, when the Bible teaches us not to lie.
The reality is that regardless of the reason, rational or motivation for it, if we disobey God in any way, shape, form or fashion, it is simply put – sin.
And who is there among us who is without some sin: so truly we have no right to cast stones at others.
If only we could learn to live in the love that God desires us to have for each other, what a much more wonderful world it would be.
Today’s Prayer
Father, forgive me for I have sinned. Please help me to be more aware and less inclined to deny my sin, but keep me always willing to repent and seek forgiveness.
“Give me your eyes
For just one second
Give me your eyes so I can see
Everything that I’ve been missing
Give me your love for humanity.
Give me your arms for the brokenhearted
Ones that are far beyond my reach
Give me your heart for the ones forgotten
Give me your eyes so I can see“
- Lyrics from ‘Give Me Your Eyes’ by Brandon Heath and Jason Ingram
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