Zero for Zero

Last night a few concepts hit me pretty hard at our bible study.

We were talking about how no sin is greater than any other sin in God's eyes. It's all the same. Which was compared to 100 sins of one person to 10 sins of another, they are still one for one. Not a new concept for me.

However I got to thinking about the fact that though it may be sin, and God gets pretty miffed about that sort of thing, he is forgiving us because of Jesus. So it's not one for one when we face him, after this life is over, it's zero for zero.

This is totally a dangerous concept because it's becomes the whole, "I can do whatever I want because Jesus took it for me," mentality.

That's just not true.

Then it becomes two things we have to overcome to further His kingdom, otherwise we are just standing still and being more of a hindrance than a help in this area. One, is the problem itself to overcome, and two, admitting that you have a problem.

We are still on the same level when God sees us sin wise, and thank goodness that Jesus took that so all He asks is that we have to believe in Him, it's only upwards from there. So while we may think we are one for one, I think God sees us a little differently.

We will always sin, and fall short, but it is encouraging that no matter how many times we fall, we are still at zero.

That's a good feeling.