"The
saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the
world to save sinners…" (1 Timothy 1:15 NRSV)
People
do not talk much about sin these days. The psychiatrist's couch has replaced
the mourners' bench for many people, and obedience to a higher moral authority
has given way to doing your own thing. Yet we are not at peace. We suffer from
a feeling of alienation -- spiritual disease -- from which we yearn for
deliverance. We may call it many things; the Bible calls it sin.
If
there is no higher authority to whom we might be disobedient, then, of course
the idea of sin becomes nonsense. But if there is a Creator who so wants our
love to the extent that God demonstrates in Jesus Christ, then sin cannot be
brushed away by calling it something else…
The
One born in Bethlehem's manger comes to show us what and who we ought to be and
to take from us the burdens of unbelief and hardheartedness from which we
cannot unburden ourselves. Jesus sets us free from sin.
-- Robert Luccock in “Come to the
Cradle”
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