Confessions: How Dare We Sin?

It seems to me that human beings do wrong every few minutes or perhaps more often, even if they (we) do not realize they are doing so. How? Even wrong thoughts, if allowed willingly, are sins – as are improper physical actions and attitudes. Yet, how often do we confess our wrongdoing and sinful behavior?

The point is that it is very easy to sin, and we do it all the time, hardly thinking about it at all. Sure, we confess the “big sins” and “public sins” and “physical sins” seen or known by others, yet we rarely confess and repent of the dozens of sins we commit hourly just for being living and thinking human beings.

We have become numb and unemotional about sin – which is the act of disobeying God that created the universe, gave us life, and provided Jesus Christ for our salvation. How dare we sin? We are supposed to yield ourselves to the Holy Spirit and be dead to sin (Romans 6).

Each sin, all sin, is simply the action of disobeying God – the actual event or individual wrong is small when compared to our nerve and idiocy in disobeying the One that made us and can kill us at any moment.

Stealing a piece of bubble gum is only minutely less wrong than murdering someone in cold blood, when it is realized that it is the blatant disobeying of the God of the Universe. Again, how dare we sin? Think about it.

Sin is both different and the same as crime, in the respect that each wrong done amid society simply has earthly consequences of varying degrees – but doing things wrong amid society is also sinful in that it is a wrong against society and a slap in the face of God our Heavenly Father.

The point of this blog piece is that we are far worse people than we think we are, apart from Jesus Christ. Our own righteousness is like that of a filthy rag without Him.

It is time that we stop thinking about Jesus as “fire insurance against Hell,” and start living a holy life as we are called by God to do every second of every day we live.