My soul clings to you,Your right hand upholds me.
If we fail to make sin devastating in order to sooth someone’s ego, we fail to comfort the soul. For when we flatter and pamper, we give a sense of self-ability and self-worth, an attitude that we can measure up, that we are ok in of ourselves. We start looking to and relying on ourselves. Yes, that is insane, because the fact is we can’t measure up. We can never attain self-worth, not truly and fully. We know this in the deepest parts of who we are, that we are not totally ok.
The comfort is that sin is devastating, and we are helpless and worthless. There is nothing we can do. . . . And we don’t have to. . .. Jesus has done it all. Through the work and worth of Jesus, we gain more for more than self-worth when we come to Him. We gain the love of God.
So let us not be shocked or devastated by the depths of our messed-upness, nor make light of sin, for we have a glorious Gospel that is bigger than the deepest depths of sin. Let that depth be apart of our speech.
