Sin

Within the first five months of my faithwalk, sin has been a tough subject for me to analyze (I love analyzing things) because of its sensitivity. There's all of this hullabaloo going on about what God means by this sin or this one or whatever and whether or not some sins are worse than others (which is 110% false). For a while I didn't even understand that sin isn't just a wrongful act; it's something much greater than that. 

This world is crawling with sin.

It's like a mosquito. We can swat one, or shoo one out the window, or cover ourselves in mosquito repellent to keep it away for a bit, but eventually it will come back. Additionally, a mosquito's bite reflects how we handle sin. If we don't touch it again, it goes away quickly. If we start scratching, then it just gets worse and worse until it scabs.

(Because for some reason Noah decided to let the mosquitoes on the Ark...)

In all seriousness though... we cannot escape sin.

"For all have sinned and all fall short of the glory of God" Romans 3:23

All fall short of the glory of God.

If our God was not the loving one that He is, we would all just be left to succumb to the evils of this sinful world and go to hell. 

But rejoice, because we don't have to face this end!

God is not looking for that one person who managed to live without sin for his or her entire life (probably because that would be impossible), or the people who just happened to commit less sin than others.

No.

God wants only one thing from us. He wants us to put our faith in Him and Him alone.

I don't know why this is such a big revelation for me now. Four months ago I told myself and I told all of my best friends that I needed Jesus in my life, and I got that. But now another door is opening for me as I see the reason behind all of this.

I was a slave to sin.
You were a slave to sin.
We were all slaves to sin.

But even though sin still festers in this world and catches up with us no matter how hard we try, we are not slaves to it anymore.

Jesus set us free!

I feel like I need to go preach this on the rooftops or something...