As I stated in the title, sin sucks. I hate it actually.
Sin is selfish and dirty and disgusting and I want nothing to do with it, yet it still consumes me. I am like all humanity, covered in sin forced into hiding in an attempt to block the worlds view from me. I am just like Adam and Eve in the garden, I run away when I hear the voice of God calling me to him. I run and try to seek cover so that God cannot see my nakedness, my vulnerability. I run into autonomy and away from relationship.
But on today of all days, Christmas, I am forced to see God for who he truly is. I am forced to see that God is love, for he did not humble himself to the form of a human in order to condemn the world but instead to FREE the world from the chains of slavery to sin! Jesus, being in very nature God did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped but instead he made himself NOTHING, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. (Philippians 2:6-7)
Jesus came to the earth to save the world from sin. That disgusting pile of nastiness that fills our hearts, Jesus came and sacrificed himself so that we could be freed and cleansed from that. His blood has washed us white as snow, no longer do we have to stand before the Lord in fear of his condemnation, but we now wear the righteousness of Jesus Christ.
So this Christmas I pray that you could experience the love of God in a new way, you would experience his loving freedom from the chains of sin and death!
