Like A Warm Coat on a Cold Day
So in less than a week, I had already offended God two more times for sure, and more if He was doing the counting. And I really struggle with what to do, in light of the recent Sermons that Pastor has been preaching, and the Bible Studies that he has been teaching focusing on our Sin Nature. The study has been gut-wrenching because its truth has punched us where we’re most vulnerable; our opinion of ourselves. And indeed we are in a terrible struggle when we realize like Pastor says, that the potential to do everything that God saved us from, is still in us.
Our sin nature is our natural leaning to offend God. I don’t mean to re-preach the sermon, but we have all been delivered from the penalty of Sin if we have given our life to Christ. We are new creatures and old things are passed away. We may look new, and walk new, and talk new, but our old nature is still very much subject to active duty. But, until we are confronted we deceive ourselves. We’re comfortable knowing that God provided a covering for Adam & Eve so that they would not stand before Him in shame, and we learned that there are consequences to Sin.