Today, is about grades! Not really, but it might be easier for us to talk about this way.
I am writing about a topic that absolutely none of us want to seriously talk about or look at, but we must. I hope that you don't click the x mark and leave the page, because the topic is sin. Yes, a word that we don't even like to say aloud, much less talk about.
Sin is defined as anything that sets itself up against the holiness or glory of God. I think some of us (myself included) at times would like to have a grading system. My sin isn't near as bad as that sin or my sin is only half as bad as that sin and well you know what God doesn't look at sin that way. No sin is just sin. Plan and simple. No big debate sin is sin, but I was thinking the other day we don't want to call it what it is. We want to label it a mistake, a lapse of judgment, a problem, the list goes on and on. When was the last time we called it what it is?
God loves us and He sent His Son to pay the price for our sin. So we must recognize it for what it is, in order to receive grace. Yes, grace. Admit your sin and accept your grace. Then we must begin to look more and more like Jesus.
No longer should we look at the next person and say well I'm at level C and that person over there well they are well an F. God doesn't see a difference in our sin and it is hard for us to grasp, because we see ourselves as good people. We haven't done anything really bad. We try to do good things. We go the extra mile. Well, Jesus is the one that did what mattered. He died to wipe away our sins and we need to realize the cost He paid for each of us.
It is the time of Easter. It is the time to recognize the love Jesus had and still has for each of us and accept the gift that none of us deserve.
Jesus loves me! Jesus loves you! Remember the song we all sang when we were little. Jesus loves the little children. All the children of the world. Red and Yellow, Black and White, they are precious in His sight Jesus loves the little children of the world. I don't know if I remembered it exactly right, but it's true. Jesus loves all of us and our measure of sin doesn't matter. Jesus sees it all the same and He loves us all the same. He loves each of us a lot!
Sweet blessings,
Debbie
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