I am a Sinner

We are sinfully people. There is not one man or one woman on this earth who has not sinned. There is no one void of any fault or blame. Sin entered the world when the very first couple decided to do things their way instead of God's way... and sin will be here until the last person on earth is dead.

Isn't it kind of sad that we screwed up something beautiful... God had spent all this time making such a pretty place for his creations to live, and we screwed it up. Imagine spending so much time working to perfect something only to have something, that you created, even though you told it not to, come and destroy it. (I don't even know how to begin to fix the grammatical errors on the previous sentence.)

Can you imagine a perfect world? I cannot begin to fathom what this world was supposed to be like....

I was thinking tonight about sin. And I was thinking how frequently we do it. Or how frequently we try and justify the sin that we are in. Sin is sin. There is no getting around it. We are ugly people who have nasty, dirty and sinful hearts. We really deserve nothing. We are constantly letting down the Man who has given us life. We break His heart everyday. Does this upset you as much as it upsets me?! I don't understand how someone who could wipe us off the entire planet, and start over, can love a bunch of messy, ugly black-hearted people.

But somehow, He does. He loves us so much. I don't get it. I don't understand how the Creator of the entire world can love a bunch of people who constantly break His heart.

And worst of all, sometimes we don't even acknowledge our sin... we try and justify it. Like somehow we think that we can make it okay. We can read our Bible for an hour to cancel out the lie that we told earlier. Or we can go to church every Sunday to make up for all the times that we have made TV an idol. I DON'T GET IT.

But, I don't think that I need to get it. I think that knowing that I don't understand Christ's love is okay. I am so thankful that I am forgiven. I am forgiven for every time I tell a little white lie, I am forgiven for every mean and hurtful thing I have ever said to someone. I am forgiven for my pride.

It's all about grace. By the grace of God, I am forgiven.

I just want to remind you of a verse that can hopefully encourage you if you find yourself feeling guilty or if you are trying to understand grace and love and you just can't get it.

2 Corinthians 5 says:

17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.[b] The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 18 All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling[c] the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. 20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

We are no longer an ugly, black-hearted sinner. You are forgiven, I am forgiven, only through Christ's grace. He doesn't have a tally going to see how many times you mess up, He wipes the slate clean. Through Jesus, we are reconciled, we are healed, we are forgiven, and our hearts are made to be as white as snow.

Sinning is inevitable, we are humans, but forgiveness is eternal and unconditional and never ending when we ask our Maker for it. Praise God for His endless mercy and abounding love.