Sin’s Grace…

Sin‘s Grace…

My grandson loves strawberries. He also loves chocolate. Let’s just say this, he loves anything sweet. Put the two together and he is a happy camper. He has been with me this spring break. Everyday, he has asked to make chocolate covered strawberries with white chocolate drizzle. Finally, at the store while buying groceries, I could relent no more and bought the necessary items. I asked him who he had made these with? He watched a video, was his reply.

I saw a church sign recently that read, “If sin doesn’t bother you, grace hasn’t saved you!” Wow! My jaw dropped. Too often the sweetness of sin coats our senses covering reality that there is a consequence. Just like the strawberries with chocolate are dangerous for me (I am a diabetic), the attraction is overwhelming. I could eat the entire dozen by myself hidden in a corner. The consequences of indulging are pushed behind the allure of the mouthwatering taste. The reality is that I know better and the consequence is not often immediate, but will come. James 4:17, "So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin"

Sin is sin. We all have sin in our lives. 1 John 1:8, "If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” But the difference in a Christian saved by grace is that we know we have sin and are convicted by the Spirit. Some become immune to the realization that they are sinning, deny the sin and accept the sin as part of their life. James 1:15, "Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death"

I don’t understand how saved people are okay with sin. I don’t understand how people can read the Bible and look at their lives without seeing the sin. I see my sin. I do understand repentance. I do understand grace. I see the cross and I know sin is real. His blood was real. By His Grace, I am saved. Romans 6:14, “For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.“ We are covered by His Grace.