Isaiah 53:3
"A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief."
We are acquainted with grief in the way in which Our Lord was acquainted with it; we get through it, but we do not become intimate with it. At the beginning of life we do not reconcile ourselves to the fact of sin. We take a rational view of life and say that a man by controlling his instincts, and by educating himself, can produce a life which will slowly evolve into the life of God. But as we go on, we find the presence of something which we have not taken into consideration, the visibility of sin, and it upsets all our thinking. Sin has made the basis of things wild and not rational.
We have to recognize that sin is a fact, not a defect; sin is red handed mutiny against God. Either God or sin must die in our life. The New Testament brings us right down to this one issue. If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me; sin in me will be killed. There is no possible ultimate but that. The climax of sin is that it crucified Jesus Christ, and what was true in history of God on earth will be true in your history and mine.
May God Bless You
And Your Families
Minister: Robert A. Lail
The Cross Life Ministry
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