Everyone Who Sins Breaks the Law

1 John 3:4 “Everyone who sins breaks the law, in fact, sin is lawlessness.”

            Lord, I think for most of us the sins of the tongue are the hardest to forsake.  I saw a sweatshirt once that said, “Lord, put your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth”.  I thought at the time that I might write “Lord put Your love in my heart so You won’t have to put Your hand over my mouth.”

            We tend to look at sin as the biggies: murder, lust, and theft.  However; You have given us a list of 7 things that You consider abominations in Proverbs 6:17-19:

Haughty eyes (Pride)

Lying tongue (gossip and slander)

Hands that shed innocent blood (abortion and terrorism)

A heart that devises wicked plans (bitterness, revenge)

Feet that run rapidly to evil (being easily drawn into another’s sin)

A false witness that utters lies (Perjury)

One who spreads strife among the brothers (usually caused by bitterness, gossip, pride, envy, etc.)

            Let’s add to that from the Ten Commandments:

Dishonoring of parents

Worshipping other gods

Not keeping the Sabbath

Envy

Greed

            All of these things would not be an issue in our lives if we were full of Your unconditional love for one another, we were devoid of pride, and were content in any and every circumstance You allow into our lives.

            All too often, Lord, again, we use the excuse that we are only human after all and have a sin nature.  But if we are truly crucified with You; then it is no longer we who live, but You live within us.  We have no excuse!  We must confess and repent.

            Lord, help me to live my life with a new motto:

NO EXCUSES!