God vs. Humanity

It seems like every day the world is just becoming more and more volatile, and the news is depicting another tragedy. When these things happen in the world, people start to dig deep and ask a lot of important questions. They wonder where is God, or how could God let something like this happen? We wonder what has happened to humanity, yet still refuse to admit that there is sin in this world. The fact is, we are the product of a world which has been broken since the time of Adam and Eve. When the earth was created, God created us in His likeness and capable of serving and glorifying Him, yet God also created us with free will, so when Adam and Eve disobeyed the law which God had given him, he paved the way for the rest of his offspring.

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6: 20-23

Since the fall of man, we have been been held captive by our sins, and deep down inside we know that, even if we can't admit it. We try to bury our secrets amongst the midst of good deeds and outward actions, but inside we're broken. There are a lot of fairly good people in this world who think that they are going to heaven on works alone. A lot of them call themselves Christians... I did. I had grown up missing the point, I had no idea what God had done to reconcile my sins, I took it on as my duty. I thought I was a Christian but looking back, I had no idea what that meant. I believed that if I just did more good than bad that God would accept me, I thought that if I did the wrong thing in one area but hid it so far down below good deeds that it would be erased. I wasn't getting anywhere, I was trying to build a mountain to heaven one pebble at a time when what I needed was a Savior.

The problem that many people have with coming to Christ is that He tears through the layers of our outward works and exposes us for who we really are apart from God. The tough part for me came after I was done confessing all of the things that I felt guilty about, and God brought out the things that I had tucked so deep in my memory that I refused to even think about. Then I realized that God had known those things all along, and that where Adam and Eve had failed and where I had failed, Christ had conquered for us.

God, in His infinite love for us, has made a path since the creation of man to lead His people back to Him no matter how broken we have become if only we turn away from ourselves and our sins and put our trust and faith in Jesus who died for our sins so we could die to our sins and find everlasting life in Him.