"We were created for Him but we live for ourselves."
"Your iniquities (wrong doings) have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden His face from you."
Those are God's words in Isaiah 59:2 ... they explain why we don't have a relationship with the God we need. Sin is a wall between God and you.
"All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." (Romans 3:23) |
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We're all missing God because of this monster called sin. Sin is the "something wrong" that is at the root of our selfishness and our loneliness and our dark feelings. Sin is really explained by its middle letter, "I." Day after day we make more "my way" choices with our temper, our tongue, our sexuality, our relationships, and our attitudes.
Because God is 100% sinless, we can't have a relationship with Him until our sin gets removed somehow. All the "I'll do it my way" choices of our lives have created this "Grand Canyon" between us and the Person we were made by and made for. If we die with that wall between God and us, it will be there forever because" ... the wages of sin is death." (Romans 6:23).
That "death penalty" for running our own lives is the awful price for sin - separation from God...now...and forever.
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