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Every picture unique.Each one with a diverse story behind it, a life filled with sadness or pain, or perhaps temporary happiness. Yet there is a common thread running through these pictures. It goes beyond the fact that they are all of one blood, living under one sky, with the same one purpose for living. That common thread is constant, it runs through the hearts of all people who have lived, will live, and are living. That thread is sin.
Sin, with its heavy weight of guilt, shame, and ultimate punishment. Sin, that which seperates you and I and every other human from God's holy presence. Sin is destruction, it is terrible, and we are all born into it. "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God." As sinners and rebels against God, we deserve the just sentence He pronounces. Yet there is hope.
"The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Do you see the beauty of that verse? First the harsh reality of what our sin costs us but then the beautiful grace of God as shown through Christ.
"But God commended His love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." God is rich in mercy and grace toward us. Though we are lost, unrepentant and undeserving of anything but His wrath, God reaches down and extends a way of escape for us. That way is Jesus Christ, who died as the perfect sacrifice for sin and rose to conquer death.
God is calling you to repent of and forsake your sin and turn to Him trembling, believing that only through Christ can you be saved from His just wrath. Only through Christ can you be redeemed from the bondage of sin and be set free to glorify God with your life.
2 comments:
Hey, Hannah! You hammer home the point in such a good way!
This reminds me of something Dave and I were discussing yesterday. God is so patient with us so many times and it's beyond my understanding how He can be! I told Dave that there are times that if I were God, I'd would have already sent judgement on myself, lol!
Thanks for the insightful posts, Hannah! You ain't bad for a girl! :p
Yes God is so very patient with us, and so wise. As humans we often have expectations of how we want someone else to behave and we get frustrated with them when they don't match up. But since God always has a perfecting love toward us, He never responds to us as Christians in that way. Instead there is always a gentle, compelling, and sometimes firm leading toward the right as He santifies His children.
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