The fact
that a perfect God has forgiven us our sins; past, present and future is
unfathomable to most of us. Then, we take a path to “self-righteousness” and
fail at it miserably! After which we enter a full circle of sin (after all,
when you break one commandment, you break all right?)
Great!
Then, we
play the Adam and Eve game of Hide and seek with God. We hide from him because
in our human minds, we don’t deserve a God so perfect if we can’t be perfect ourselves.
A LITTLE
LESSON ABOUT SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS
The children
of Israel said they would do everything the Lord commands (Ex 19:8). Then, they
were given the ten commandments (Ex 20). Unfortunately, before they received
it, they had broken the first commandment: “Worship no god but me”
