"Found To Be Sinners"

"But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid." (Galatians 2:17) I will not be moved, is more than a statement, because it is a stand taken in a matter that has already been established. Do we understand that? Most of us, I fear, do not! Can't we all just get along? As Paul was writing this verse in Galatians, I can only imagine the thoughts that were pressing him in his mind, and if he was thinking still about Peter in Antioch, when he wrote it. In verse 14, Paul tells how he had confronted Peter for his hypocrisy in the view of both Jew and Gentile. In the movie Peter and Paul, Paul was played by Anthony Hopkins, and he played it good; and the movie portrayed Paul actually yelling at Peter in front of everyone, as to make them all aware of his dissatisfaction with Peter's actions. To be perfectly honest, I sometimes wonder what God accepts us to be; or what He expects us to be like? What are we justified in doing? The interesting thing about the verse above, is that the word 'found' is something that means to find without looking; as if to say that we have stumbled into finding out that we are living sinfully. This concept of what is justified before God, is something which takes place in our hearts, not in God's; for the origin of sin in man, is man's doing, not God's. What we sometimes do not understand is that God's ways are not our ways, and His thoughts are not our thoughts; which means primarily, that they are worlds apart. The main point to what Paul is stating in the verse above has to do with our ability to keep the Letter of the Law, and that because we cannot, we seek to be justified by Christ in lieu of our lack of ability to keep the Law; however, that does not give us a blank check to sin. The question that arises from this position, is one of the nature of sin, and what is sin? For the problem that Peter caused in his hypocrisy, could actually have been viewed as sin; or at least viewed as sowing discord; which may be worse than the act of sin...