Deep within the understanding of every man there is a consciousness of sin. Whatever men may want to label it, it is there - that sense of something not being right, that gnawing, discomforting thought that will not go away, that awareness within each individual that there is some unnamed blockage between what I am and what I should be. Any religion that ignores this fundamental fact of the human spirit cannot truly meet man's need.
F. B Meyer wrote: "To say with Buddha, 'You can wipe out your sins with good deeds,' or with Mohammed, 'God is good, and will not be hard on you,' is not enough." The truthful and thoughtful human heart recognizes that sin must be dealt with radically and drastically. Jesus has not treated sin lightly. He gave up His very life in order to loose men from the chains of its guilt and of its power.
The shed blood of Jesus Christ means that God has viewed our sin as being of tremendous gravity. To Him, it is no slight illness to be cured by a regimen of diet and exercise, or even by countless good works that we may do, attempting to assuage our consciences. To Christ Jesus it is a condition that is deep-seated, radical, and perilous, endangering the very fabric of our soul's health - as well as the scope of our soul's outlook on the future.
When we seek for answers to the burning spiritual questions of our hearts, there is a great danger in seeking answers in the wrong places. There are many false teachers and false leaders who realize very well that spiritual hunger in a person, and a vacuum of spiritual truth, can make people vulnerable prey for their appealing, "easy-way-out" deceptions.
No such empty answers, however, can address our true spiritual needs.
The shed blood of Jesus Christ means that God has viewed our sin as being of tremendous gravity. To Him, it is no slight illness to be cured by a regimen of diet and exercise, or even by countless good works that we may do, attempting to assuage our consciences. To Christ Jesus it is a condition that is deep-seated, radical, and perilous, endangering the very fabric of our soul's health - as well as the scope of our soul's outlook on the future.
When we seek for answers to the burning spiritual questions of our hearts, there is a great danger in seeking answers in the wrong places. There are many false teachers and false leaders who realize very well that spiritual hunger in a person, and a vacuum of spiritual truth, can make people vulnerable prey for their appealing, "easy-way-out" deceptions.
No such empty answers, however, can address our true spiritual needs.