"Do I have any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?" says the Lord God, "and not that he should turn from his ways and live? But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? All the righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; because of the unfaithfulness of which he is guilty and the sin which he has committed, because of them he shall die."....."Again, when a wicked man turns away from the wickedness which he committed, and does what is lawful and right, he preserves himself alive." (Ezekial 18:23-24;27)
When I used to work for my dad at his restaurant, it always felt like whenever I made a mistake, all the countless things I did right seemed to go right out the window. Never did I imagine that God would view us in the same way...were it not for Jesus of course! What was done once, never need take place again. That does not mean that our feet do not get dirty (John 13:10), but our sins were carried once and for all, for all.
It seems to me that living in the time before Christ would have been like a neverending spiritual teeter-totter; one would have to remain vigilant in their heart to make the way for the Lord clean. Similarly now, we strive to remember that it is not our own righteousness that makes us pure, but in who we believe. The mantra of 'guilty until proven innocent' still stands-and our justification died and rose again to prove it!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment