Wednesday, September 11, 2013

HAVE WE GROWN TO OVERLOOK SIN?

Whether we have grown to overlook sin would possibly depend on a couple of elements: (1) is it a personal sin with us, and (2) do I sense the personal guilt?

(1)  We have a knack of discounting our own sinfulness while elevating one's sin which we would never find the slightest temptation.

(2)  We also can develop inclination to dismiss my personal sin as rather average or low-grade of which we intend to get a handle on it sometime in the future.  Efforts for self-correction are accepted because relapses just happen to the sincere like myself.

Simultaneously, we tend to elevate the sin of another which is different than ours.  The church has practiced this for as long as I have been around.  Sighs of disbelief over another's sin often come from the smug and the proud who would never commit such an atrocity; yet the smug and the proud is found rejectable by Jesus.

Have we grown to overlook sin?  Yes and no.  We still see another's sin as blatant.  Our own, however, we tend to discount as not trying hard enough.  We vow to do better.

Could it be the deepest sin is to fail at both of the above?  To be filled with scorn toward another for their failure and yet excuse our own horrible missteps surely is to have participated in a miscarriage of the Good News.

His admonition will forever ring with precision.  Once we remove the log from our own eyes we will see the specks in others.  The Cross always has a message.  Excruciatingly, the Son of God bled for all sins for there was not one sin that was not devastating.

May we each keep our own forgiveness from destructive sinfulness in the forefront and then gather as many as we can---sinner after obnoxious sinner---at the foot of His 70 x 7 Cross.


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