Symptoms of Sin...

Humans are amazingly adaptive. We can adjust to many environments. But that has a negative side to it, in that we can adapt to things that are destructive. Rather than feeling pain and shifting to a different path, some merely adjust to the pain and call it ‘life’. We are so adaptive we can overlook the call to change a behavior. Do you have the ability to rightly interpret the pain that shows up when on a wrong path? Look at the verse…
“Even the rustle of a leaf will throw them into a panic. They’ll run here and there, back and forth, as if running for their lives even though no one is after them…all because of their sins.” ~Lev. 26:36
Israel somehow lacked the ability to connect the dots between their self-willed ways and the fears that were consuming them. It is true that sin breeds fear and weakness in us; while salvation breeds courage and an indomitable spirit. While every panic attack doesn’t signal sin, sin does show up in daily emotional ways. Martin Luther, the famous reformation theologian of 500 years ago related with this verse deeply when he read it and admitted that small things disturbed him greatly because he didn’t have confidence in God’s love for him. In fact, it was a lightening storm that drove him to leave studying law and run into the priesthood. It happens to the best of us, that we are put to flight and run as though we’re about to be consumed. This is nothing but plain ole fashioned sin blinding us from resting in Christ’s love. The discerning person knows the SYMPTOMS OF SIN! ~Verlon