Sorry for the prolonged absence from the blogosphere. It's been a while I know, but I've had some stuff that's been needing to be dealt with. Nevertheless, I'm back in time for Christmas!
I heard a commercial on a Christian radio station the other day that said we are all “drowning in our sin.” A drowning person is fighting for his life. He is fighting to get out of the waters that are trying to choke him. He is in need of help. He needs a rescuer. It sounds good enough, right? But is it a biblical picture of us in our sin? While it’s true that we need a rescuer, is it true that we are really fighting for our lives to get out of our sin and merely need someone to assist us in our desire to escape?
The Bible paints no such picture of us in our sin. The picture is much more hopeless than that. Consider the following observations from Ephesians 2:1-5:
- We were dead in our sins (vs. 1, 5)
- We followed the course of this world (v. 2)
- We followed “the prince of the power of the air” – namely, Satan (v. 2)
- We lived in the passion of our flesh (v. 3)
- We were by nature children of wrath (v. 3)
But in spite of this hopeless condition of our souls, look at what God does:
- Instead of giving us his just wrath, he shows mercy (v. 4)
- Rather than let us face his righteous anger, he loves us with a great love (v. 4)
- Rather than leave us dead in our sin, he makes us alive (v. 5)
How do you understand your condition as a sinner, and how does that lead you to see Jesus? How would you explain it to someone who does not believe the gospel?
Your right! There is so much misunderstanding about salvation and justification. Christ is not our lifesaver, or the one who throws us the life boat, so we all can jump into it or that he even pulls us aboard. We are floating dead bodies in the water before we are saved. We enjoy our sin and follow our sin into deeper waters, but God loves us even when we were dead in our sins and washes our corpses onto the shore and resurrects us and gives us a new heart and a new life!
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