Christian Family Services Ministry

3-11-2017 – A Word to the Wise: Or consider greed. Jesus said that it is easier for a camel to make it through the eye of a sewing needle than for the wealthy person to seek forgiveness. Thus, in many ways, immorality is easier to deal with and set aside. To the woman taken in adultery in John 8, Jesus simply says: “Go thee way and sin no more.” Contrast that with the paralyzed man of John 5, who was anger, bitter, friendless, and disloyal. Jesus warned him to stop it, or something even worse than a physical handicap, and total helpless would befall him. The man did not heed the warning; indeed, that very day he betrayed Jesus to His enemies. Some may wonder about grace. Grace does not remove the consequences, nor does it make the wrong right. Grace provides the strength to forsake the sin, and to acquire purity again before the Father. It does not justify us before men, for this grace is of God, not of man. Salvation is a spiritual experience more rarely than a physical one. Let’s face it: Ultimately it is what God thinks of us that is important. With the Lord, a new birth and a transformed life is possible.