Consequences of Sin

A recent struggle that I've been "dealing with" has come to mind.

Being exposed in sin sucks, and often when it happens guilt, shame, desire for change, and fear are dredged up in my mind.



But a new thought has come to my mind. What does the person who is witnessing that sin feel? Horror? Embarrassment? Shame themselves? Guilt of some kind?

For certain human audiences, I think witnessing a sin would cause them to judge the person in sin. At first they may see the person sinning as lowly, dumb, unwise, and the witness may even question the committer's state of mind e.g. why is he/she doing that? But then later, witnessing said act of sin could cause them to be able to compare themselves with said sinner. This is pride in the witnesses' heart. Or maybe if they're saved by grace the thought may be, "I'm a sinner too, God you love me, and you love this person. Please save them from the bondage they are in."

And a final thought, what would a perfect, completely-loving and also completely-just God feel about witnessing the sin?

I think (not knowing God's thoughts but making an assumption based on things I've read) that God would feel a wrath welling up inside of him against the sin, and also would feel hurt if the committer of sin was a Christian.

I think He would be hurt because the committer was supposed to be His bride, and yet he had once again cheated on Him with another.

I think that God would feel hurt because the committer had once again not seen Him as being more "fun" or fulfilling and satisfying then the idol.

I think that God would wonder why the committer had not trusted in the powerful grace that had done the work of transferring sin from committer to Jesus, that had transferred Righteousness from Jesus to sinner, and had given life to the dead sinner's heart.



To wrap this up, I think this is why Paul gives the advice, "Set your mind on things above, not on earthly things."

I know that I can't "just deal" with sin in a trivial way. This is what I've become use to, so I pray that I would be daily reminded of how my choices affect me. Sin can be a horror, but since I've become desensitized to it in some ways I forget that God sees it as ugly. I'm glad that He's helped me see this image too.