June 27
Sinning can be a nasty little habit that is difficult to overcome. We are born with a fallen nature. We have a proclivity to sin. It’s what we do. Watch children at play. Sweet, cherubic darlings that they are. See how long it takes until they are tugging on the same toy, shouting, “Mine!”
Notice school children in their little ‘clicks,’ whispering together about another child who has been shuttled aside, feeling quite rejected and forlorn. Children can be extremely unkind to one another—especially to one who seems insecure, to one who perhaps needs their kindness most.
As adults, we manifest the same tendencies we did as children. Yes, we camouflage them better now than we did then, but they’re still there. Apart from an experience with Christ, receiving Him into our heart and being guided by His Holy Spirit, we have virtually no genuine love or kindness within us. Upon receiving Jesus, however, we are transformed! We love as He loved. We desire to help others as He did.
How can this remarkable metamorphosis occur? The beloved apostle tells us in I John 1:9, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive our sins and will purify us from all unrighteousness.” The ‘sin nature’ that was imposed upon us from birth is washed away in the shed blood of Jesus. When we ask to be forgiven, we are cleansed of all unrighteousness by the Righteous One whose blood removes sin’s stain from us.
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