It needs to be understood that we all live in sin, and in fact were born into it. You see, the world we live in is broken, it is not the way it was intended to be. The reason for this is because of Sin, with a capital “s”. Sin refers to the problem of being separated from God. This separation started when Adam and Eve decided to rebel against the edict God gave them of not eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 3). With this decision, we all have the knowledge now, and therefore and born into Sin.
Also, with this knowledge we commit sins, or acts that are contrary to the will of God. For instance, it is generally accepted that we should lie, and God even put that into his law. When we lie, which we all have at one point or another, we commit a sin. So we are doubly guilty here, both by association and by commission.
The wonderful part of this is that God wasn’t satisfied with us being separated from him. So, he came and showed us what life should be like. However, the example he gave wasn’t a life riddled with rules. Rather, it was a life being lived in deep relationship with God, and through that relationship all other things happened.
If you think the Christian life is about living by a bunch of rules, I hope you’ll take a few minutes to reconsider. I would invite you to read the book of John. If you don’t have a Bible, you can read it at www.biblegateway.com. The life Jesus invited us to is one that has a meaningful, in fact the most meaningful, relationship…one with God. All it takes to start it is to stop for a moment, and pray. You might start with something like this:
God, I believe that you’re there, and I believe that you want to have a relationship with me. Will You come and invade my life and start to show me how a life in relationship with You can truly be?
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