Quick post, why is that we Christians don’t realize that it is our fallen nature to sin? When we get saved that doesn’t make us perfect. We are counted as perfect in God’s eyes in a judicial sense but we certainly aren’t perfect in how we think, act, or relate to others. When we get saved one of our greatest sins is self righteousness.
Because of our relationship with Christ we begin to think we are “good” people. We are no longer evil like everyone else is how we begin to think. Thus we start to sin in a different way then we did before we met Christ.
We start replacing the grace of God with our own self righteousness. We look at all the good things we do and start to consider our “Christian” works as better than their “sinners” works.
In the OT God described sin in relation to leaven. Leaven (yeast) is necessary for bread to rise. Just a little leaven can effect a whole lump of dough. Leaven is also hard to see. It takes a good pair of eyes. God warned us that having a little leaven in our lives can completely ruin us.
Yet in conservative Christianity to keep the leaven out has become for many Christians there sole duty to God. They create their own little subcultures on what it means to be right with God. They are very defensive. In their effort to keep the leaven actually many of them are does nothing but keeping it because they can’t see it.
I think God wants us to realize that a little leaven is hard to see. To see ourselves right we need to go to the One who sees everything and let him show us who we really are.
Speaking for myself it is not always a easy picture to see.
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