Sin Brings Disgrace

March 4, 2009

Today's Reading: Numbers 9-10 and Proverbs 18

I know I’ve said this before, but I would love to see Israel during the time of Moses. The idea that you could see God’s miracles on a daily basis seems rather appealing to me. Especially when there is a pillar of cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night.

I think I might have talked earlier about the glory of God and what it is, and how we probably don’t really know what it truly is. We often use these as visual examples of what glory is.

I would love to just be there just for that. I would follow wherever those pillars of fire or cloud were going just to say that I was close to God.

Of course, most of our lives are spent doing work that we do not like to get barely enough money to live our lives. That’s just the mundane-ness of existence, but also the complete immorality of it.

It is really sad how most of our lives living in the end product of original sin. Much of what we go through is because those before us left us a sucky legacy. A lot of people have been complaining that our current crappy economy is the result of idiots spending money on things they can’t afford.

It always brings me back to Proverbs 18:3, a verse that reads: “When wickedness comes, so does contempt, and with shame comes disgrace.” I remember when I was reading this version of the Living bible that summarized it with three simple words: “sin brings disgrace”.

The first time I read those three words, God was doing a lot in my life. I remember that I had just wrecked a relationship with a girl I had been going out with for a month or so. I realize that there are a lot of readers who might be more interested in that tangent, but that’s because you are freaks.

I’d rather not go into details about a tangent, but what it showed me was that eventually the works of my life catch up to me, and that all I was doing was just living in the fruits of my sins and that of others. The end result was a bad taste in my mouth and a burdensome feeling that had I died back then, I would have gone straight to hell.

Fortunately, stuff started to happen that caused my life to get back on track. I suppose this is the closest that I have shared on this blog as far as my testimony is concerned.

If you need some takeaway value from this, let me lay it on you in three simple words: sin brings disgrace.