Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Hating and Loving
Tonight I met with some of my small group cats as is our custom on Wednesday nights. I haven't been there for a couple of weeks due to some travel obligations but was fortunate enough to make it tonight. A couple of weeks ago one of the guys busted out what has become to me an epiphany of sorts. We are on the topic of temptation as we are following a video series dealing with it and it was said that hating [our] sin will not make me grow closer to Jesus, but loving God will cause me to hate [our] sin all the more. Maybe that should be intuitive but it was, to me, an important discussion that has altered forever (hopefully) my perspective of sin, grace and redemption.
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I have been meaning to comment on this for some time. I don't want to minimize the importance of being holy, but I think a lot of people have this idea that the goal of our Christian journey is to stop sinning, or to sin a lot less, or to switch to "better sins". But really, we are powerless to clean ourselves up. Freedom, baby.
Did that comment sound bitchy? In case you can't tell, I am meaning to agree with you, not chastise you.
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