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Have you ever noticed how quick we are to defend our wrongdoings and the wrongdoings of others around us? I am guilty of making excuses for the errors of loved ones myself. It is as though, without much thought of the consequences of sin, we have chosen to embrace its wickedness rather than rebuke it.
Sin has always been a funny one for me. Despite all the sermons I endured growing up, I don’t find it so easy to define or as cut and dry as I should. The world is riddled with evils big and small. The weight of the fallen state itself is burdensome on a human soul. I do not believe it has afforded us the luxury of flipping through the roller deck of someone’s sins to ridicule them into purity. Yet I find this attitude has lead me to other extreme where I am unable to look at something that is very obviously wrong and say as much.
We are so ensconced in sin that – whether we realise it or not – we have built a monument to it in our hearts, our homes, and our society by extension. The little evils we try and fail to hide in our hearts come out as larger issues in our homes. The issues in our homes we are too ashamed to address become even bigger problems in our society. It corrupts it at every layer and the foundations are crumbling and roof is toppling over.
If our world is not to be destroyed by sin, we must destroy the sin itself and we must start from within us. And the way to do that is through sacrifice. Firstly accepting the grand sacrifice that was made for us all those years ago, then making our daily sacrifices to put to death the selfish desires within us that lead us to sin.