The Tragic Nature Of Sin

 Isaiah 59:1,2

 "Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; 

neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities 

have separated between you and your God, and your

sins have hid his face from you, 

that he will not hear

       
        Much of our suffering in life results from our sins, which cut off God’s help to us. Let us not blame God, but set ourselves to discover the cause of controversy. Instead of stamping out evil in the egg, the sinful heart hatches it out, and it yields the poison of vipers. Result; the cursed doomed state of the ungodly! Their feet, and their thoughts, and their paths, are fatal to them to their own and to others. The way of peace can be entered only at the Cross, and maintained only by constant watchfulness. "To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace" (Luke 1:79).
        Troubled souls pour out their complaint before God, confessing, first, the bitterness of their sufferings and then the blackness of their sins. The roar of the hungry bear for food and the dove’s mourning for her mate, Isa. 59:11, are descriptions of the complaint of the penitent soul. It is a good sign when a man cannot lift up his eyes to heaven and beat upon his breast, "And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner" (Luke 18:13). 
        Amen!!

Reading: (Isa. 59:1-15)
Ref: (HGSB)

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry

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