Sin | a 4-Day Skate Church Movement Devotionalનમૂનો

what is sin?

“All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on Him the sins of us all.” Isaiah 53:6

The theological definition many scholars give to sin is that it is “any transgression of the law of God,” but that’s a little difficult to understand, so let’s look at it in a different way. Think back to when you were learning to ollie for the first time. You watched your friends or a trick tip video and practiced over and over. Now imagine, instead of popping the tail, sliding your front foot up the board, and jumping up in the air, you decided to practice by slamming your back foot down in the middle of your board and pushing down with your front foot. What is going to happen? Are you going to ollie? Something’s going to happen, maybe, but it isn’t going to look like an ollie. Why? You tried to do it your own way but failed because you didn’t follow the basic laws of physics, the basic movements of the ollie. If you keep choosing to do it your own way you will actually find that you won’t be able to use the skateboard in the way that it was intended. You might even end up with a broken board.

In a similar, but much more serious way, all of us often choose to live life on our own terms and in our own ways. In fact, Isaiah describes sin as “going our own way” or “following our own path.” Isaiah 53:6 says, “All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on Him the sins of us all.”

Sin is choosing ourselves and our ways over God’s perfect, loving, and right ways. It’s saying, “I think that I know better than You” to God instead of saying, “I need You, trust You, and love You. Your ways are better.” Sin separates us from God, and separation from God means death. (Romans 7:11)

The Bible also says that all of us live this way; all of us fall short of the perfect standard of God. That’s why we needed God to place our sins on His own perfect Son, Jesus. We could never bear the punishment that our sins deserve. Luckily for us, Jesus took the punishment of sin for us on the cross. Not only that, but when we put our trust in Jesus, God credits us with His perfect life and now sees us as forgiven and perfectly good. Like we stepped on the board and snapped a perfect, effortless ollie. That’s incredible news!

pushing further

1. Do you think that it is hard to forgive yourself for sinning?
2. How does it make you feel when you know you have sinned?

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