At What Cost?
What is the most expensive thing you own? Your phone? Car? house? Your education (let's be real, university/college is really expensive)? Think even harder about it. The most expensive thing I own is my sin. It is so incredibly expensive and it is not something that I could ever work enough hours to pay for. It is not paid with cash, credit, debit, or cheque. It is paid in mental, emotional, and spiritual pain. God did not create an arbitrary list of "DOs" and "DO NOTs" to see if we could and would follow them. No, He laid out a set of essential guidelines for living. His anger towards lying, stealing, cheating, coveting, murder, jealousy, and pride is because every single one of these things, D E S T R O Y S relationships. Every single thing that the Bible labels as sin are the things that God is trying to protect us from. His desire for us, is love, peace, grace, and harmony with Him, but also with all of creation. Sin is the defiant rejection of this love...