Questions answered Blog entry # 1

What is sin?

 

In today’s world, it has become politically incorrect to talk about sin. However, the Bible makes it crystal clear that “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23). What does this exactly mean though?

 

I think that we all need to understand that sin isn’t just something big, like murder, rape or robbery. Sin is failing to do the things we should and doing the things that we shouldn’t be doing. In short, sin, as a word, describes anything that fails to meet God’s standard of perfection. Sin is actually the barrier between us and a satisfying relationship with God. I love the example that light and dark cannot be in the same room together, God and sin cannot exist together either.

 

Sin isn’t just a barrier between God and us, but also between you and other people. Any look at the news for five minutes, or newspaper lets us know this truth. We live in a time where terrorism abounds and the world as we know it can be destroyed in a second by nuclear force.

 

Sin is also a deprivation of good. As such, sin is characterized by a lack of something rather than being an end to itself. As earlier stated sin is a break in the relationship to God and others rather than being an “ontological substance.”

 

May you make a break from sin, and realize God has so much more He wants to do in you this week.

 

Coram Deo,

Pastor Trev