Fools
Fools say in their hearts, “There is
no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is no one who does good.
The LORD looks down from heaven on
humankind to see if there are any who are wise, who seek after God.
They have all gone astray, they are
all alike perverse; there is no one who does good, no, not one.
Have they no knowledge, all the
evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon the
LORD?
There they shall be in great terror,
for God is with the company of the righteous. You would confound the plans of
the poor, but the LORD is their refuge.
O that deliverance for
People seldom use the word sin
anymore. When we do something wrong, we may show inappropriate behavior, or
make a tactical error, or make a mistake. We may even admit we did a bad thing,
but we never admit we sin.
The fact is,
we do sin in spite of overwhelming physical and spiritual evidence to the
contrary. As followers of Jesus, we must steadfastly resist the efforts of our
world to minimize the reality of sin.
Jesus’ blood
can cleanse any sin,
but is powerless
to forgive an excuse.