Sins of Convenience

8-12-2024

Sins of Convenience

When God created all living things he did so by instilling within them natural instincts and the will to survive whether plants, animals or humans.

From the very beginning all of man’s needs were sustained by the creator God who walked and talked to man daily in the garden. God commanded that man not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil or from the tree of life or he would die, yet from all other trees man could eat. It is only with humans (mankind) that God gave the ability to choose between good or evil. It was the disobedience of Eve and Adam that set the work of evil into the hearts of men.

God gave man ten commandments to follow:

Have no other gods before me; make no idols; do not misuse the name of the Lord; remember the Sabbath and keep it holy; honor your father and mother; do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal; do not speak falsely against your neighbor; or do not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor.

These are very simple commands and yet without God they are virtually impossible to follow.

In today’s enlightened state we tend to justify our sins.

We tell a white lie and say that it isn’t really lying; it’s just stretching the truth.

We jokingly misuse the name of the Lord in profane ways and offer no apology or give it a second thought.   

We disobey and disrespect our fathers and/or our mothers because we don’t like what they tell us or the way they speak to us.

We kill without thinking, whether it’s taking the life of another deliberately, accidently or with abortion where we justify that it’s inconvenient or a woman’s right to choose or some other excuse.

We take what is not ours, not because we need it to survive, but because we like the way it looks on someone else or think it will look better on us, or simply because we can and we’ll get away with it anyway.

Man’s core problem is sin. We want what we want and we want it now, no matter what.

We think that the world revolves around us because we’re all that and a bag of chips. Either we are chick magnets or men are falling all over us or we think we’re the brightest light bulb in the room.

We think of ourselves as the lord of our domain, the master of our universe, the savior of our world and the envy of everyone who sees us when in reality we don’t even register on the reactor scale of life. The only constant in life is change and basically we ain’t it. We must face the fact that we leave this earth the same way we came in – with nothing.

When this life is over, without God we are nothing. When death overtakes us (and it will) we enter into eternal life either with God (because we have a relationship with him) or without God because we have chosen not to be bothered by him.

John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his only beloved son Jesus so that anyone who chooses to believe in him shall not perish but will have eternal life.”

The choice is yours. – RTM