You Decide

God gets indignant toward sin. Fools make a mock at sin (Proverbs 14:9), they laugh it off and say it's nothing, but God does not laugh off or brush off sin. He takes it seriously, Jesus did as well. Jesus did not “brush off” or take lightly the sin of the woman caught in the act of adultery. When He forgave her, He was looking at her heart. He forgave her because He knew the heart of the matter was, she wanted to be forgiven. His forgiveness of her sin was given with an imperative statement, "Now, GO AND SIN NO MORE" (John 8:11).

In another instance, when Jesus healed a man who had been lame for 38 years, He told the man, to go and sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon thee (John 5:14).

Fools make light of sin, but Jesus NEVER did. It is foolish to teach the gospel as if He did, by glorifying the weakness of humanity instead of glorifying the Power of God that lives in man once he has believed and received Christ. For if any any man be in Christ he is become a new creature (2 Corinthians 5:17). God is called a liar and not true when one believes in the weakness of man rather than in the Power of God to conquer sin in their mortal bodies. Let us say rather, Let God be true and every man a liar. (Romans 3:4). We must believe what the Word says, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" (Philippians 4:7). Because of this truth, we are instructed, Let not therefore sin reign in your mortal bodies (Romans 6:12).

We make the decision to allow weakness to guide us into sin and death, or to let the Power of God (in Jesus the Word) guide us into Righteousness and Life eternal. The decision is ours. Which will you decide?

Choose you this day whom you will serve (Joshua 24:15).

May God be praised and His name lifted up high forevermore. Amen.

The Lord be with you all as you live seeking Him. All things and people were created by Him and for Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made (John 1:3). By Him we live and move and have our being (Acts 17:27-28).

May each day of our lives reflect these truths.