Recognizing Sin in a World Filled with Justification

-

  One of my readers requested that I write about the topic "Recognizing Sin in a World filled with justification." The topic intrigues me and the way the reader worded it touched me in a deep way. Well my first thought is that we live in a victim culture and a very narcissist culture. We are at the center of the universe and our ideology is that "the people surrounding our daily lives seem to always be harming our happiness. We are innocent of all pride and greed but our neighbors are filled with it."

  Secondly I believe religion as a whole condemned certain acts as sin so much that it caused these "sinners" to rebel against these beliefs. Religion seemed to step way over their bounds because they judge harshly and very biasly. Being gay, an adulterer, committing suicide was the straight path to hell according to these churches. What these silly religions and churches failed to realize was that Jesus, there God, condoned the Scribes and Pharisees of his day for being hypocrites and he forgave the sexually immoral and "sinners" in Jewish culture.

 The moral of Jesus' radical message was to not judge another man's heart. Only God can judge. However that does not give us a freebie to sin. Our world today gives us half-truths. They make Jesus, a liberal who wants to care for the sinner yet the sinner need not put effort into repentance. "Jesus saves and picks you up from the mud." Well yeah God does! But you have to get up from the mud, and want to leave your sin behind.

  To recognize our sin in this day and age we must be searching and open to truth. We do that by forming our conscience. When our conscience is formed we can actually be contrite about our wrongdoings toward God, each other, and to ourselves. When we are contrite we are willing to repent and make up for our sins. The only reason Jesus could actually forgive the adulterers, tax collectors, and etc was because they actually were sorry. God can not force his forgiveness on you. The world is filled with justification because it has no conscience. Let us form our conscience by finding truth and look with empathy towards people around us. A little reminder here, Truth only comes from God.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Just A Pinch Of Incense To Caesar

-
  During the early Christian persecution in the Roman Empire, many Christians standing on death row were asked to merely burn a pinch of incense in front of the Emperor's statue. If they would do this their lives would be spared. They were told they didn't even have to mean it. All they had to do was just go through the motions of accepting a Roman god! In response, most Christians refused and were martyred because they realized only Jesus was worthy of their love and worship. And no worldly compromise whether a handful or pinch size was worth risking their eternal soul.     Here in America, about 1,950 years later, we live in a culture that is ramming pinches of incense into our mouths. The thing is we don't have to swallow. And we mustn't swallow. Our culture has disbanded prayers to Jesus Christ in our schools. It has indoctrinated pre-marital affairs and gay lifestyles to our youth. It has created an identity crisis for males and females through diversity classes...
Read more

God vs The Idea of God

-
 Growing up I read, listened  and watched many fairy tales and Disney movies. These stories revolve around fantasy and filled my mind with hope. It formed my mind to look and think about "True" love  in a certain way. As I got older and experienced relationships for myself I realized that my view on love was in correct and expectations were to high. This was caused mostly because my idea of love was a picture painted from the videos and stories I had seen when I was young. The way we think of God and how He acts toward us is no different than the way I view true love.  Our minds can put God into a box. Inside the box, we control what God can and can not do. Because we are stuck on the Idea of God and not the true essence of God. The idea of God is subjective and opinionated. You can ask twenty people what there idea of God is and you will get twenty different answers. But since truth is king, there is only one true chemistry of God and we must do two things about it...
Read more

God Helps Those Who Help Themselves

-
    One sunny morning, a few years back in my general contracting days, I hopped into my rusty pickup truck and turned the key in the ignition. "Bang" The passenger door closed with a thud. A wide smile from my cousin/helper, Pete, greeted my tired face. I put the gear stick in drive and sped off. On the road I made a sloppy sign of the cross and whispered a five second prayer.     "I am glad you are making an effort to pray, but do you know what you really are?" Pete asked with a grin on his face.     "What am I?" I replied with a smug smile.     "You are Lukewarm. You believe in God, but you don't live your life as if it matters. I shook my head with a resounding "No!" But inside my heart I knew he was right. I had been living my life as if God and His truth hadn't matter.       Now, a few years later, I can proudly say that I am actively living out my Baptismal calling. I am by far no saint, just a constant sinner seeking re...
Read more