I have found in my dealings with God’s people throughout these long years, untold numbers live in constant fear that He will hurt them when they sin. But this only exposes the fact they do not have an intimate relationship with Christ, nor have they meditatively entered into His sufferings.
Our greatest fear should not be that God would hurt us for our sins, but rather that we will hurt Him by our sins. Our first consideration should never be what sin will do to us or others, but what it has done, and does, to the Lover of our Souls. Sin is most hurtful, first and foremost to Jesus Christ. I need only to take you to the Place of the Skull to prove my point.
Darling David, after his sin with Bathsheba, and being responsible for her husband’s death, along with many other innocent men, prayed to God, “Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight." And Joseph’s words when tempted to commit adultery with Potiphar’s wife said, “How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?” To these godly men, a sin against God was immeasurably more serious than a crime against man.
“Our greatest security against sin is to be shocked by it.”
(Dr. E.M. Blaiklock)
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