Wednesday Reading: Romans 3:7-11
Key Verse: Romans 3:7
7 For if in my lie the truth has more abounded to His glory why am I still judged as a sinner?
Devotion:
How many times have you done something that you know is wrong because you thought that what would happen in the end was going to be something good? If that does happen then was it not a good thing to do wrong? Absolutely not. No excuse will ever be able to stand up in front of God. No amount of lies nor wrong doings will ever be counted as right in God’s eyes. And yet we still continue to think that we can either get away with things, or do things wrong for good to come out of it... Do we not see the consequences of sin in our world? Do we not notice the pain and suffering that sin causes? Why then do we cling on to it in our lives?
Sin has become so engrained in our society that more people believe that there are bad things that have to be done in order for good to come from them. That is not what God teaches us, though He knows full well that that is exactly what is going to happen in our lives. He knew that Adam and Eve would sin in the beginning and that He would have to do something to cover that sin. He knew that He would have to be the one that made things right because He knew that no good thing would ever come out of sin! That does not mean that God is never going to forgive our sin because He has shown what He is willing to do by allowing Christ to die on the cross to cover our sin debt.
We must always remember that no matter what others try to convince us of, sin is sin and will have to be dealt with in the same was as all sin is. None of us are righteous because we all do sin, we all do things wrong in our lives. But Christ has already paid for our sins so all we have to do is to bring them forward to Christ and to ask Him to forgive us for what we do do wrong. He will be willing to forgive us of anything so long as we openly admit that we did it wrong and that He is our Lord and Saviour. What a gracious God we have.
Points to Ponder:
Do you think you can get away with it?
Do you not know God is watching?
