No one is innocent in the sense of being sinless, except Jesus Christ.
Sin effects permeate everything, and the suffering we see all around us is a direct result of that sin. But God did not leave us here to suffer pointlessly.
Sin - We are the screw ups!
It has been said that there is no sin so great that God will not forgive, but there is no sin so small that it does not need to be forgiven. Sin is sin, period.
There is a fast food chain in the area in which I live that had an incident where a young man spit in the drinks of a customer. Needless to say, the customer pressed charges. I frequent this particular fast food chain quite often for coffee and have not stopped because of this incident.
The past two days the place was a ghost town since the story made the news a couple of days ago.I have to admit that if it were my personal drink that was spit in, I would not ever step foot in ANY of the restaurants of this food chain. But, it wasn't my drink. I mean really, what are the chances that this incident would ever happen again at this exact same restaurant?....Slim to none. My point is this, yes, this young man made a wrong choice by spitting in the customers drinks, and he did get caught in the act by a surveillance camera, but the thing that bothers me is the reaction of the community....a lot of their frequent customers stopped going there because of this. They are being judgmental. All the while these people that stopped going are sinning everyday as well. They may be sinning differently than the young man, but they are still sinning. Sin is sin, period.
Some of these same people are going about their day committing adultery, robbing someone, cursing someone out for cutting in front of them on the highway, throwing trash out their car window, and many more that I could list, but it would take all day to list them. All if these sins committed and the people committing them don't even blink an eye, yet they judge others because they sin differently than they do. WE ARE ALL THE SAME! WE'RE ALL SINNERS IN DESPERATE NEED OF A SAVIOR!
Jesus had much to say to the Pharisees of His day. They had polished performance, kept the laws, followed all the rules and regulations, and were proud of it. They also had a judgmental attitude toward others, did not walk in love, and showed no mercy. Jesus called them whitewashed tombs full of dead men's bones (Matthew 23:27).
Matthew 7
Judging Others
1 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
Walk in love; walk in mercy.
God's Grace is given to overcome sin, not to permit sin: to provide a means of forgiveness for sins, not to provide a credo to excuse sin. Our forgiveness shows what we think of God's forgiveness.
Having been forgiven by God on the basis of Jesus' payment for our sin on the cross, how can we do any less than forgive one another?
Blessings,
Dalinda
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