A Four Letter Word
Romans 3:22-23 God makes people right through their faith in Jesus Christ. He does this for all who believe in Christ. Everyone is the same. All have sinned and are not good enough to share God's divine greatness.
Did you know that “sin” is a four-letter-word?
Hang on Berni! S-I-N – that’s only three letters.
Nah, sin is a four-letter-word. And what I mean by that is that for many, it’s like a swear word – a dirty word. It’s a word that we never utter. It’s too confronting; too in-your-face. After all …
… it’s an old fashioned word, a judgmental word, a religious word. No one talks like that any more these days. It’s completely irrelevant thinking. Get out of here!
That’s how most people today think, and yet sin – kind of like pollution of the soul – is slowly killing us.
People sometimes wonder – what’s my destiny? Where’s my life headed? How come it’s not coming together? You know, I’m thinking it’s because half the time, we’re swimming against the tide – heading off in this direction, when all along God’s plan was for us to go in that direction.
There’s a simple word for it. It’s called “sin”. The literal meaning of that word, the original Greek Word used in the New Testament for “sin”, is this: to miss the mark. Or as we might put it today: to miss the whole point. It seems to me that running away from God’s plan is exactly that! Missing the whole point. No wonder nothing’s coming together!
Let’s come back to this pivotal Scripture for a moment:
God makes people right through their faith in Jesus Christ. He does this for all who believe in Christ. Everyone is the same. All have sinned and are not good enough to share God’s divine greatness. (Romans 3:22-23)
We’re all the same, we’ve all sinned and none of us is good enough to share in God’s glory. We may not take sin all that seriously these days, but God takes it so seriously, that He sends Jesus His very own Son, to die on a cross to break the power of sin over our lives.
How are things going for you at the moment? How well are things coming together for you (or not)? Could it be that you’re missing the point? Could it be that sin is robbing you of the plan, the destiny that God has for your life?
God makes people right through their faith in Jesus Christ. He does this for all who believe in Christ.
That’s God’s Word. Fresh … for you … today.
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