So often we think of sin as an act and certainly that is true, but I would like to encourage you to think of how very often sin is used as a solution. When the trials of life surround us it is not seldom that we find the solution to these trials in a path of sin.
Let just suggest some examples: in many marriages the solution to conflict has be sought by the sin of breaking the covenant of marriage in financial turmoil the solution to debt has been found in the denial of obligation to pay the debt.
How much better it would be if we used the trials of life to move us closer to God and a true form of righteous behavior. Selfless love and sacrifice can often remedy marriage conflicts, and financial problems can often be remedied by good disciplines, planning and hard work, but these solutions are not easy or always attractive. Sin can often be described as an alternative to doing things God’s way. Sin is really much closer to the very root of our lives than we often acknowledge.
It seems most common that we attempt to deal with the fruit of our sin, anger, bitterness, criticism and slander, rather than deal with the root of it which is our aversion to doing and living God’s way.
