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The Passing Word

Sunday 

1 August 2010

From the Pastor's Desk... 

 

It is God’s holiness that reveals God’s great love for us. Often when the love of God is spoken we engage in anthropomorphism and, I think, we assume that God loves as a mother might love. Always accepting, always inviting always standing on the side of her child no matter what. The type of love we see many times on the television as the mother of a murderer is interviewed and she says something like, “My son is a good boy.” While we may be able to identify with her comment we do a perilous thing when we assume God acts in the same way.

 

God’s injunction to His people is to be holy as He is holy (Lev 20:26; 1 Peter 1:15-16). God says this because we are not naturally holy and have to be made holy and then we must work out our holiness diligently, therefore it always too much of a stretch to assume that God’s communicable characteristics are fathomable from the way human beings usually behave. Hence God has given us His Word so that we can begin to understand God from His perspective and it is from His perspective that we, His people, ought to seek to understand sin.

 

God’s hatred of sin can only be truly understood in the context of God’s holiness and love. His holiness allows for nothing sinful to remain in His presence and His love ensures, through Christ, that we who are sinful can. Not meaning that we can live our lives any way that we would like once we have accepted the truth, ‘by no means’, the Apostle Paul writes.

Surely the Good News of Jesus Christ is not that sin doesn’t matter anymore – but rather Jesus has made a way so that it doesn’t hinder our coming to God. Once received by God, through repentance, we can walk with God as he takes us through the process of removing sin from our lives, not out of fear, but because now that we know God we do not want anything in our lives to come between us which sin does. Let us be encouraged therefore to hate what is evil and cling to what is good (Psalm 17:10; Amos 5:15; Rom 12:9) for the glory of our Father in heaven.

 

Blessings David