The Results of Sin

This may be short but it will make will make the point. The man that I wrote about in "Sins Trap" a few weeks ago is now filing for divorce from his wife. This morning he spoke with his Attorney to begin the process. He for all intense and purpose is not at all upset by this. He just stated that he is sick of his wife and that he will just marry one of the Phillippino woman from the website he has been looking at. He accentuated that he has already ramped up his search.

If you did not recall the first part of the story you can find it about seventeen days ago. This man started viewing a website of Phillipppino woman looking for marriage. These woman will chat with and call men that have signed up with the web site. He has requested photos from them in provocative clothing. He has slowly gone from looking at them to calling them on the phone and speaking with them at length.

You see this man has not got God in His life, no thoughts of what Jesus has taught us all. He has no moral guidpost and whatever feels right and good at the time for him is ok. He does not need to look inward as nothing causes him to do so, he only looks to the external and the things that others do or don't do that make him happy. Some people are good natured but that is only half the battle. We must be good to Gods standards of goodness, not our own. This man thinks he is good! Is he?

If he is good, to his own standards then why does everything that he is doing seems so bad to us that read this now? Would we do the same, would any good person do the same as he? Sure, we see it all the time, "he was such a good neighbor, never a problem", but then something trageic and out of place to his "goodness" happens.

The point here is that this started off in his mind as just a simple look. No big deal to him. He had no thought of trying to honor or respect his wife. He had no hope in what he had so he just sat and looked for something else to satisfy his desires. He has no will to do anything to save his marriage so he engauged in destructive behavior that drew him away from what was good. This is how sin works. All sin. Slowly and mithadodicaly it will draw you away from what is good.

The neighbor that was "a good man" beating his wife. The family that looks so happy on the outside suffering from coldness and lack of interest and divorcing. We all sin and fall short but the difference is how we react to it, what we do with our sin. Do we internalize it and justify its presence or do we feel the ache of the Spirit letting us know to give it to God?

Pastor Johnson said it quiet well. Sin will is man settling for less than the things of God. God is ultimately what will satisfy us, but Satan sells us lies and we fall short of this Glory. This man has fallen way short and then continued to pursue the sin. It has now played it self out into justification for the breakup of his marriage and a highlighting of all that is wrong with no hope for what was right. Who has one because of this? What did his "goodness" end up doing?

Flee from sin. This man did not do this and we see now the results of the sin. HE accepted his sin and let it consume him. He allowed the toke on the pleasure pipe turn into an addiction that told him that the woman on the computer were better than his wife because they didn't cause him to have to work at it. They didn't require caring and compassion from him. They were easy fullfillment when the relationship with his wife was difficult. I am not saying that this could have been stopped or that he would have never sinned in the first place but I assure you that if he had Jesus Christ in his heart, truly in his heart they may have had a chance.

It is sad and we should pray for him and the others who get wrapped up like this.