Thursday Reading: John 9:39-41
Key Verse: John 9:41
41 Jesus said to them, If you were blind, you would have no sin. But now you say, We see. Therefore your sin remains.
Devotion:
We must never forget that God is God and that He cannot accept sin. We, on the other hand, think that we are OK or fairly good or even without much sin... It should not take us long to spot that we are still sinners! As long as we are able to identify what we do and think we will be able to see that we do do things wrong; and we do those things wrong against God. He is the one that has given us the commandments whereby we must live; they are not grievous but they not to be messed with either!
If we were not able to identify that we did do things wrong then we would still be innocent; but right from the beginning we have been given the ability to identify right from wrong and through that we do not have any excuse! We like to think that we are good people by closing our eyes to some of the things that we do and think about hoping that these things will not affect us. The sad truth is that every little thing that we see (physically or spiritually) will affect us in some way. The more we allow into our lives, the more we will be tempted to follow some of those things because they look so good... that is us closing our eyes to the things that surround us!
But we do not have any excuse for doing that. We do know what is right and wrong. We learn that at a very early age. As babies we learn to do so many things just to get our own way. As adults we force those ways on others still trying to get our own way. As we begin to see our ways are not God’s ways we will then begin to see just how much He has tried to do for us so that we may be forgiven for all that we do, say and think. What an awesome God we have; one that cares for us so deeply that He paid for our sins through what He did on the cross. Let us open our eyes to see just what we do and what Christ has already done for us.
Points to Ponder:
Do you think you are a good person?
Do you realise that Christ died for each one of us?
