Sin and Grace
You don't know 5% of your sinfulness. This was one of the lines from Kurt Gebhards this past week as he taught at our summer camp. The heart is deceitfully wicked, so much so that we cannot even comprehend how sinful we really are. I've been thinking about this and trying to sift through my own heart and I have to say that I agree with this statement. My motives stink. My thoughts are riddled with deceit and pride. I am sinful beyond description. This makes Romans 5.20 even more precious - because where sin abounds, grace abounds much more. If I don't even understand my own sin, then I haven't got a clue about how abundant the grace of God is. I simply cannot wrap my arms around it.
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I'm tremendously blessed by this blog for the simple reason I've been contemplating the same thing. In the depths of such a deceitful heart and not to mention my overwhelming sense of pride, for me to even know what to confess as sin leaves me speechless at times. Not because there is no sin to confess but because I can't really get my hands around the truths of how sin drenched I truthfully am. I biblically know in my head how wretched of a man I am and what Jesus has called me out of. But due to my lack of understanding of my true sinfulness, my regard for how great the cross truly is seems to be often lowered.
Just to understand this truth has to have been a work of God's grace in my life that I am eternally thankful for.
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