Sin

Sin.

"Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour." 1 Peter 5:8

I do what I don't want to do.

I don't do what I want to do.

"The wages of sin is death." Romans 6:23

Sin means I live eternally separate from God.

But, God doesn't want that. He created me to be eternally in His Presence. I no longer have to pay with my death, because Jesus Christ did. Jesus Christ died in my place, taking on my sin, and then conquered death by rising from the grave. He paid the wage for my sin and now the "gift of God is eternal life in[a] Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 6:23

Sin.

Why doesn't God take it away? I pray that he removes it and it remains.

So, in studying a bit of Hebrews 12 the other day I noticed this verse "let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus..."

While God took away the wage of sin by sending Jesus to die in my place, I still have a responsibility to "throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles". I'm not supposed to sit and wait for God to take the sin away, I have to "throw it off"!

I can't sit idly by and wait for it to disappear...because that won't happen until I decide to get rid of it. God is ready and willing to take sin from me, but first I must choose to give it to Him.

It is a choice to give the sin to Him and then "fix my eyes on Jesus".

I pray that God makes me hate sin as He does.