"For the person who keeps all of the laws except one is as guilty as a person who has broken all of God's laws. James 2:10 (NLT)
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We hear it said quite often sin is sin. To break one law is to be guilty of breaking them all but do you believe it?
I remember in the beginning I had created my own categories of sin. Ones that I persuaded myself were not too bad, others that if I did them I was sure God would be disappointed in me and still others that I thought would be sure to cause God to strike me down because it would so greatly displease Him. You may have more categories than I did! What was certain was that my knowledge of God was inaccurate and inadequate and my understanding of sin was based on my own rationale and influences borne out of how I was raised, my personality and my experiences. SMH
With that said, our Holy God's response to sin is simply that sin is sin irrespective of what it is!
Oh for the correct knowledge of God!
So I stood in church one Sunday and though I was determined to be in God's presence I expected Him to stay away from me. You know how we are when we have slipped up we almost instinctively hide from and avoid God. But we are the ones who leave, not God.
That Sunday I began to ask God to forgive me of my sins and to thank Him for reminding me that I cannot walk the Christian journey in my own strength. As I talked to God in the quiet of my heart He was there! My Spirit suddenly had an awareness of His presence and His love. He was not condemning me but had certainly convicted me of my sin and offered me His cleansing and forgiveness.
Somewhere inside me I was shocked that God had freely forgiven me! How could I have doubted His mercy and grace, were they not the same attributes that with faith in Jesus Christ had afforded me salvation? I guess I had put this offense in one of the higher categories (smh). This experience caused me to contemplate my knowledge of God. Did I really know God adequately? Why were some of my ideas about God inaccurate?
You may want to ask yourself these questions too:)
1) Do I know of God or do I know Him for myself through relationship with Him?
2) Do I really know God adequately? Is my perspective of Him complete?
3) Are my ideas about God correct?
4) What may have caused my ideas about God and my relationship with Him to be skewed? Could it be the people who I relied on to show me love, the way I was socialized and the list of influencing factors goes on!
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Until next time,
EJ
Onward & Live IN Purpose
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