BUT A POOR REFLECTION: Definition of sin

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Definition of sin

Sin isn’t only doing bad things, it is more fundamentally making good things into ultimate things. Sin is building your life and meaning on anything, even a very good thing, more than on God. Whatever we build our life on will drive us and enslave us. Sin is primarily idolatry. -Tim Keller, Talking About Idolatry in a Postmodern Age

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: Paul,

hmmmmmmm. I'm thinking about this one; 9/27/2007 4:03 am
Paul said...: So am I, Mike. Have a look at the article by Tim Keller (link at the end of the quote), because it makes perfect sense. God will not accept second place in our lives - taking away the glory that belongs to Him alone is the essence of sin (putting someone else or something else above God). I think that Tim Keller has some important things to say about this!; 9/27/2007 9:07 am
Anonymous said...: Paul,

The words "I will not give my glory to another" come to mind. Your right the Lord will not be second to anything.
There is a lot to chew on here. I will let you know when I recover.; 9/28/2007 2:15 am
Art said...: Very true.; 9/28/2007 10:53 pm

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Have you ever wondered why God gives so much? We could exist on far less. He could have left the world flat and grey; we wouldn’t have known the difference. But he didn’t. He splashed orange in the sunrise and cast the sky in blue. And if you love to see geese as they gather, chances are you’ll see that too. Did he have to make the squirrel’s tail furry? Was he obliged to make the birds sing? And the funny way that chickens scurry or the majesty of thunder when it rings? Why give a flower fragrance? Why give food its taste? Could it be he loves to see that look upon your face?

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I do not condemn theologians wholesale, but it is unfortunately the fashion in Western thinking to doubt and deny everything. I protest this tendency. I never advise anyone to consult theologians, because all too often they have completely lost all sense of spiritual reality. They can explain Greek words and all that, but they spend too much time among their books and not enough time with the Master in prayer. It is not that I oppose all education, but education without life is certainly dangerous. You must stop examining spiritual truths like dry bones! You must break open the bones and take in the life-giving marrow.

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In the Bible clouds are always associated with God. Clouds are the sorrows, sufferings, or providential circumstances, within or without our personal lives, which actually seem to contradict the sovereignty of God. Yet it is through these very clouds that the Spirit of God is teaching us how to walk by faith. If there were never any clouds in our lives, we would have no faith. "The clouds are the dust of His feet" (Nahum 1:3). They are a sign that God is there. What a revelation it is to know that sorrow, bereavement, and suffering are actually the clouds that come along with God! God cannot come near us without clouds— He does not come in clear-shining brightness. (Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, July 29th)