Knowledge and Love of My Nothingness the Continuous Memory of My Sins
One day a school principal received a phone call. The voice said, "Thomas won't be in school today." The principal was a bit suspicious of the voice. He asked, "Who is speaking?" The voice came back, "My father." I can just imagine that principal had a conversation with the boy's father and his sin of deceit had been discovered.
Sir Walter Scott penned the lines in his poem entitled Marmion, "Oh! What A Tangled Web We Weave When First We Practice To Deceive." No matter what our sin is, we can be sure that at some time or another it will "find us out." As a result we live constantly looking over our shoulder or worrying about who is going to find out about our secret sin.
The web of sin
Sin often becomes a web that we get caught in. Each sin lays down another sticky string of web until the web becomes so tangled we become entrapped in the web that we created. Then we are left with the guilt that sticks and clings to us and weighs us down until we experience depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, or feel like failures. Whether the sin is a lie or any other sin, we can be sure we will be found out…one way or another. Even if we were to get away with it here on earth, God is an omnipotent God. He sees everything and He knows everything – even the thoughts that are never expressed through word or action.
God's Perfect Knowledge of Mankind
King David tells us in Psalm 139:1-12, that there is nothing God doesn't know and there is no place we can hid from God. Read the verses:
1O Lord, You have searched me and knownme.
2You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off.
3You comprehend my path and my lying down, And are acquainted with all my ways.
4Forthere is not a word on my tongue, But behold, O Lord, You know it altogether.
5You have hedged me behind and before, And laid Your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledgeis too wonderful for me; It is high, I cannotattain it.
7Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence?
8If I ascend into heaven, Youare there; If I make my bed in hell, behold, Youare there.
9 If I take the wings of the morning, And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10Even there Your hand shall lead me, And Your right hand shall hold me.
11If I say, "Surely the darkness shall fall on me," Even the night shall be light about me;
12Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You, But the night shines as the day; The darkness and the lightare both aliketo You.
Sin will always come home to roost
An Eastern proverb says: "Curses, like chickens, always come home to roost." Sin also will "come home to roost." It might mean that we got caught in the sin. Or maybe we didn't get caught, but we still live with guilt, regret, and the consequences of our actions. It might mean that relationships are hurt or destroyed. It might mean getting fired from a job. Or it might mean the end of a marriage. Even if the sin brought no consequences now, God always knows. Psalm 139:7 says, "Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence?"The answer is – nowhere.
Consider the following examples from the Bible:
- Adam and Eve tried to hide from God when they committed the first sin. God asked Eve, "What have you done?"
- When Cain killed his brother, God asks, "Where is your brother?" Cain denies any knowledge of his whereabouts. God's reply: "What have you done?"
- Moses killed an Egyptian who was mistreating a Hebrew slave. He thought now one saw him. The Bible tells us that Moses looked around before killing the Egyptian. Then he buried the body in the sand. But then the next day, he attempts to break up and argument between two of the Hebrews and they said "Will you now kill us like the Egyptian?" Moses learned the hard way that our sins will find us out. Moses' sin sent him fleeing from Pharaoh to another country.
Over and over again throughout the Bible we can find where someone thought they had gotten away with sin, only to realize that they could not hide it from God.
Achan's "Hidden" Sin
In Joshua 7, Achan took "accursed" things from among the spoils of battle that God had given instructions not to take. He didn't even get to enjoy those things because he had to bury it so no one knew. But God knew and the result was the nation losing the next battle. Achan's sin found him out and came home to roost.
David's "Hidden" Sin
David thought his sin of sleeping with Bathsheba was not known, but his sin results in the conception of a child. Now he has to cover that up so he brings Bathsheba's husband home from the battle (where David should have been!) so that everyone will think the baby is her husband's child instead of his. However, the husband is too noble for this plan to work and so David then sends him to the front lines knowing it will result in the husband's death. Bathsheba then becomes part of David Harem. But God knew exactly all the sins that was tangled up in this web and the son conceived in sin became ill and died. David's sin found him out and came home to roost.
Ananias and Sapphira's "Hidden" Sin
In Acts 5, people were selling their possessions and giving to those who had need. Ananias and Sapphira sold some land and told the apostles they had sold for a certain amount but in fact they had sold it for more and kept the rest for themselves. Their sin was not keeping some of the profit from the sell, but that they were deceitful in telling the apostles they sold it for less than they had. Peter asks Ananias, "Why have you lied, not to men – but to God?" Ananias and Sapphira's sin found them out and came home to roost.
The "Hidden" Sin of Joseph's brothers
Joseph's brothers were filled with jealousy – so much so that they sold Joseph off to slave traders. They then had to cover up that sin with another and they took his coat of many colors and dipped it in the blood of an animal, ripped it up and brought it to their father who assumed Joseph had been killed by a wild animal. But seventeen years later when a famine is in the land, the brothers go to Egypt to buy grain only to learn that the second in command of all of Egypt was the brother they had sold into slavery. Their sin found them out and came home to roost.
God always knows our secret sins
In Psalm 90:8, the psalmist wrote, "You have set our iniquities before You, Our secretsins in the light of Your countenance." No matter how much we think we get away with something, God always knows. If it is not revealed in this life, you can bet it will be revealed when you stand before the judgement seat of Christ.
Hebrews 4:13 tells us, "Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things [are] naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do."
Psalm 44:21 tells us that God knows the secrets of the heart.
Luke 12:2-3 tells us that nothing is covered up but all things are revealed, nothing is hid that shall not be made known, that what is spoken in darkness will be heard in the light and proclaimed upon the housetops.
We can have forgiveness of sin rather than living in the guilt of sin
Every word and action of our lives are stored in God's books and we will have to answer for each and every word and deed. However, through Christ's shed blood on the cross and his resurrection, we can accept Him by faith as our Savior and receive forgiveness of sin so that the ledge books in heaven are wiped clean! The Bible tells us that if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
So you can be sure that no matter the sin, our sins will indeed find us out. I would rather have my sins forgiven and washed away then to have to explain them to God.
God, forgive us of our sins and help us live in obedience to your Word.
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