Suffering Enough for Sin Doesn't Make It Up (TMF:1085)

Friday, March 15, 2019
Peace to Live By: Suffering Enough for Sin Doesn't Make It Up (TMF:1085) - Daniel Litton
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       While it is true that we will mess up in our lives, we should not be thinking about our failures all the time, but rather our focus should be on good things. God’s mercy and grace wipes away our failures when we repent of them. Therefore, it makes no sense for us to go around with our head down and try to suffer enough in our grieving for our sin that we feel God is pleased and now accepts us again. That’s not the way it works. When we identify sin, or when the Holy Spirit points out our fault, we are to repent, and then move on. If we are living with guilt all the time for mistakes, we aren’t living like God wants us to. Remember what the Apostle Paul said? And it is a big verse. He said, “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus who walk not according to the flesh (but according to the Spirit” (Romans 8:1, ESV). Well, if we have repented, we are not walking according to flesh, are we? We are walking according to the Spirit. And so, we should not walk around feeling condemned all the time. We are to make use of God’s grace when we fail.