Biblecia.comCoram Deo

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          We often think of sin in its cumulative light rather than its qualitative effect. We think of how many times we’ve lied, stolen, coveted, etc. It is right for us to think of our sins as numerous, but let me ask you – have you also measured SIN’s resident power? Not just your sin’s incalculable tally, but its over-arching power? And what that reveals about the power of the gospel? This can help us see how we need Jesus.
          It took just one act of disobedience to put Adam and Eve along with all their progeny under the curse of sin for eternity. It was not how much they sinned, but that they sinned. Sin enslaves, John 8:34, and is the dominant reality of our world. The whole world is at enmity with God, and it nearly always has been. From Babel to Brooklyn there’s only war. “All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God,” Romans 3:23, and all of us were born into the fray. That’s SIN. 
          To see this reality in Scripture and then as Christians to be able to proclaim with Paul how “…having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ” in Romans 5:1, is very humbling. Peace with God? What a declaration! If I can truly say this it must mean that my sin problem, in both its qualitative and quantitative totality, is completely pardoned. That’s an awesome reality that I cannot take flippantly. I need a perfect righteousness. That comes from Calvary, “For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified,” Hebrews 10:14.
          Like me, if you’re in Jesus, He did not just have to die because of how much you’ve sinned; He had to die because you’ve sinned.