The Biggest Effect Sin Has On Us….

Here’s the biggest effect sin has on an individual: it eliminates the ability to say “I’m sorry”. By going against the truth, you not only lose the ability to apologize, you lose the only thing necessary to sustain relationships. As infallible human beings, once we lose the ability to mend relationships (through repentance with contrition), it’s impossible to have deep, meaningful connections with people due to our lack of honesty, our unwillingness to make a wrong into a right, and our lack of concern for others. Sin causes our pride (selfishness) to blind us to the truth. It turns all of our focus towards protecting and preserving ourselves. Unless we “get out of our own way”, we will eventually crash the cars of our lives due to the inability to see the road ahead. It’s almost like driving in the dark without your headlights on; you can try to feel your way around, but as you pick up speed, your chances of crashing into something rise higher and higher. Sin focuses us solely on self, and guarantees to desensitize us to the most important things on earth, our relationships. Go stand in front of a mirror, right now, and ask yourself, is my pride, my self-preservation, “my saving face”, my sin, worth the inability to relate? If this bothers you, or you find yourself slipping into this type of behavior, then do something about. Do something about right now. God is ready to listen, and rescue you from your own, self-inflicted demise.

 4 “Jeremiah, say to the people, ‘This is what the Lord says: “ ‘When people fall down, don’t they get up again?When they discover they’re on the wrong road, don’t they turn back?5 Then why do these people stay on their self-destructive path?Why do the people of Jerusalem refuse to turn back?They cling tightly to their liesand will not turn around.6 I listen to their conversationsand don’t hear a word of truth.Is anyone sorry for doing wrong?Does anyone say, “What a terrible thing I have done”?No! All are running down the path of sinas swiftly as a horse galloping into battle!7 Even the stork that flies across the skyknows the time of her migration,as do the turtledove, the swallow, and the crane.They all return at the proper time each year.But not My people!They do not know the Lord’s laws. 8 “ ‘How can you say, “We are wise because we have the word of the Lord,”when your teachers have twisted it by writing lies?9 These wise teachers will fallinto the trap of their own foolishness,for they have rejected the word of the Lord.Are they so wise after all? Jeremiah 8:4-9