Absolute Perfection?

                                        James 2:10
                     "For whosoever shall keep the whole law,    
                                 and yet offend in one point,
                                        he is guilty of all"

         The mortal law does not consider us to be weak human beings.  It takes no account of our heredity and infirmities,  it demands that we be absolutely moral.  The moral law never alters, either for the noblest or the weakest, it is eternally the same.  The moral Law ordained by God does not make itself weak to the weak, it does not make our shortcomings less serious.  If we do not realize this, it is because we are less than alive;  for immediately when we become alive, life becomes a tragedy.  "I was alive without the the law once; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died."  When we realize this, then the Spirit of God convicts us of sin.  Until one get's there and sees that there is no hope, the Cross of Jesus Christ is a farce to him.
        Conviction of sin always brings a fearful sense of the law, it makes a man hopeless;  "sold under sin."   I, a guilty sinner, can never get right with God, it is impossible.  There is only one way in which I can get right with God, and that is by the Death of Jesus Christ.  I must get rid of the ever lurking idea that I can ever be right with God because of my obedience.  Which one of us could ever obey God to "absolute perfection? 
      We only realize the power of the mortal law when it comes with an "if."  God never coerces us.  In one way we wish He would make us do the thing, and in another way we wish He would leave us alone.  When ever God's will is in the ascendant, all compulsion is gone.  When we choose deliberately to obey Him, He will charge the brightest star and the last grain of sand to assist us with all His  "Almighty Power!!   Amen!!

                                May God Bless You
                                 And Your Families

                                             Minister: Robert A. Lail
                                             The Cross Life Ministry