Don't Try to Dress Up Sin; Romans 5-8

May the mumbling commence!

Though we like to broadcast the sins of other people, we try to dress up our own sins to look as good as possible.  Sometimes, we even can fool ourselves.  But we never fool God.  And the Lord has given us the Law so that we might not so easily fool ourselves.  Read from Romans chapter seven (Peterson’s The Message paraphrase):

But I can hear you say, “If the law code was as bad as all that, it’s no better than sin itself.”  That’s certainly not true.  The law code had a perfectly legitimate function.  Without its clear guidelines for right and wrong, moral behavior would be mostly guesswork.  Apart from the succinct, surgical command, “You shall not covet,” I could have dressed covetousness up to look like a virtue and ruined my life with it. (Verses 7-8)

When we pay attention to the Law, sin cannot hide anymore.  The light of the Law reveals it.  What we could once hide in the dark becomes revealed.  Fooling ourselves and others becomes much harder – though not impossible.

So let’s not try to doll up sins to look like virtues.  Let’s allow the Spirit of God transform us from dead living to vibrant and eternal life.

Enough mumbling for now…

Peace Out