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If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 1 John 1:8 NIV
Ever wondered how a worm gets inside an apple? Interestingly enough it does not burrow from the outside, but rather an insect lays an egg in the apple blossom. Sometime later, the worm hatches in the heart of the apple, then eats his way out. Sin, like the worn, begins in the heart and works out through a person's thoughts, words, and actions.
We are not sinful because we sin, we sin because we are sinners by nature, it’s what we produce and it comes out of a natural tendency that we are all born with. The good news is that God can and has taken care of this for us, and the only reason God’s word tells us that we are sinners is to show us our need of a Saviour.
Your heavenly Father has done everything a God of love can do to save us from our sins and His solution for our sin problem was Jesus’ death on the cross.
The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge. They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them. Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. Psalm 19: 1-4 NIV
As a boy I kept fish, I would sit for hours staring at my fish tank and dreaming of new ways to decorate and enhance the scenery. Cleaning it was a chore though, I had to be so careful, and my fish would go mad, franticly trying to swim clear of my net, even if it meant jumping out of the tank. My actions were incomprehensible to them, and the only way I could ever have some hope of calming the situation would be to actually become a fish and explain my actions to them in a language they could understand.
That’s exactly what God did for us; Jesus is the ultimate revelation mankind has received from God. He loves us so much He became one of us, so that we could understand Him.
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. John 3: 16-17 NIV
