Wednesday Reading: 1 Corinthians 5:1-8
Key Verse: 1 Corinthians 5:3
3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,
Devotion:
There is going to be a time in each one of our lives when we will have to face up to telling someone that what they are doing is against God’s Word. It may well be made even more difficult if you have feelings for that person because we don’t like to have to tell the people that we love that they are wrong. The apostles were given a great commission to take Christ forward and make sure that people got to hear the Gospel truth. We are given that same task as Christians in that we must take God’s Word with us and we must uphold it.
As Christians we are sometimes caught in between some very hard places, one of those places being pride. How are we ever supposed to admit to things if we are not going to set aside our pride? How are we ever going to ask for forgiveness from our Lord if we are not going to first admit to those sins in the beginning? Sin is something that always has a way of leaking out and something that we should never try to cover because we will only prove to ourselves and to everyone else that it is a futile task to try and cover up sin just because we don’t want others to hear about it!
The effects of sin in our lives are far worse than we can imagine at first. We imagine that it will only affect the way we have been in the past or the way that we present ourselves. But sin works deep into our souls and sin will always make itself known. Sin will make us cover up more sin and bring on more sin. Sin will dig us into the deepest hole we can imagine that fills itself with sin. And if you don’t believe me, then just look up and find out where you have been…
Christ came to earth to pay for our sins and He willingly did that because of His amazing love for us. That does not mean that we can now cover up all our sins and pretend that we don’t go there! That would be telling Christ that what He has done was for no reason! Sin needs to be shown the door so that we can live for Christ and not to try and live to cover it up ourselves!
Points to Ponder:
Do you try to sweep things under the carpet?
Do you know Christ already knows about it?
