What is Sin?

Have you ever mediated on sin? In the Bible it states that sin leads to death. The gravity of having any sin in our lives means that we should be sentenced to an eternity in the fiery furnace. As Christians, when we can recognize ourselves as sinners, we should be crying out for God's mercy and forgiveness. In the following paragraph, Henry Law gives us a picture of what sin is like.

The picture darkens when the developments of sin in reference to the SOUL are seen. It changes this garden of the Lord into a howling wilderness. Fragrant flowers cease to bloom; thorns and briers usurp their place. It dims the noblest jewel of God's creation. It tears away its robe of righteousness, and casts it forth to face the world naked, impoverished, impotent-without one sheltering rag-with no possession but ignominious shame.

Sin breaks down and obstructs spiritual maturity and our ability to commune with God. The imminent presence of sin in our lives is the reason that God sent His Son to die on the cross for us, because He saw that we were in need of a Savior to be the payment for our debt of sin. Have you accepted this Savior into your heart already?

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