God Wants Us to Live Holy Lives, Part 2 (TMF:1084)

Thursday, March 14, 2019
Peace to Live By: God Wants Us to Live Holy Lives, Part 2 (TMF:1084) - Daniel Litton
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       When we keep letting sin have it’s way in us, he gets upset. For one, it is because he is a holy and righteous God. Two, it is because he wants what is best for us. If we are sinning, we aren’t doing what is best, and we may be even preventing God from giving us the things he wants to give us because we are not mature enough. We are not displaying a mature character that he can count on. And in due course, we hurt ourselves by our sin. So God does discipline us for sin at times, just like a father and mother disciplines their child when the child misbehaves. The parents do this because they love the child and want what is best for him or her in the future. That’s why the discipline is occurring. And so it is with God. He disciplines us because he loves us. 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.