Introduction:
This page describes what is meant by this old fashioned word that seems
so important to God.
Although we commit actual sins, sin is the general term given to
being independent of God. Choosing to go our own way rather than God’s.
“I don’t need God and never will”, would be a good example of sin. Me
first, me last and me in between.
Now put that in the context of our culture and indeed the whole
world and you begin to see the picture. It’s not how God planned it. God
wanted us to be people who loved him, lived with him, talked with him
and knew him. Instead we live apart from God, the Bible says “dead in
our sin”, or “a people who walk in darkness”.
Our teaching tells us we live in an enlightened age and for sure
we have lots of knowledge. But if we know so much, why is there so much
death, destruction and suffering in the world we live in? People blame
God. We always blame someone else. But God says sin is the cause. Sin in
individual lives. And God doesn’t start with other people. In my life he
looks at me and in your life he looks at you.
Turning from sin might not change the whole world, but the Bible says it
will change yours.
Jesus summed up all of the Ten Commandments in just two commands. The
second of these is, “Love your neighbour (or everyone you have dealings
with) as you love yourself”. If everyone lived like that, crime, wars,
fights, and huge swathes of human misery would be a thing of the past.
“Impossible” you say. Yes it is, until we obey the first command. “Love
the Lord with all of your heart, all of your mind, all of your being”.
The more we do this, the more we go God’s way and the less we sin, the
less hurt and pain we cause and the nearer we will get to peace on Earth
and an end to human suffering.
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