Because you and I live in the realm of the human, and finite we believe what our human, finite world has taught us to believe... Sin and wrong-doing brings punishment, justice, condemnation, and harshness. Therefore, our nature is to cover, conceal, and hide all wrong-doing lest we receive these punishments. Conversely this is how we begin to deal in the spiritual realm as well. We see God through humanistic eyes. Many people wrongly see God as an "Old Man Upstairs" with lightning bolts eagerly waiting to catch man sinning so that He can strike them down in anger and vengeance. However, nothing could be farther from the truth! In fact, the Bible says, "God is love." which means that the very nature of God is love. In the verse above the Lord communicates through Solomon to us that the covering and hiding of sin so weighs us down that no facet of our life will prosper with sin in tow. Then God goes a step farther to tell us that our views of God and sin are wrong! He doesn't want to strike us down, and the natural course to hide and cover is wrong! In fact, He then goes a step further to say that instead of revenge we will find mercy and the implication is that with mercy we also can find God's prosperity! POWERFUL STUFF! But it's only is powerful if you and I enact it in our lives! CONFESS!!!
From my heart,
-R
1 comments:
Exactly! Ppl see God as dangling them over hell saying, "be good or I will condemn you to hell forever!" when in fact John 3:18 shows us we are condemned ALREADY, and God is doing everything (but forcing us) to accept salvation from this condemnation! Please email me at water05201@hotmail.com as I'd like permission to use this on my blog?
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