"Desperation"

"For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me." (Psalms 38:4) No doubt, you have heard the term, "That's above my pay grade"; well, in the case of us dealing with our sins, the task is far more than any one of us could ever try to handle; let alone try to remove our own sins from our lives, which is literally impossible. Although, there are those that will try, as they try and do as many good works as they possibly can, in an attempt to offset there sins with works; sadly, they are going to be very disappointed when they hear those four words, "I never knew you", and they discover that it was not about works, but about the grace of God, and a relationship with the lover of our souls. The Bible clearly says that we have no power over spiritual matters, only the Spirit of God can overcome the spiritual wickedness that keeps us bound to sin, (Ephesians 6:12); why should we think any different when it comes to getting sin out of our lives? as if we can just shut it off, be done with it, and it is gone? We surely would not try to operate on ourselves, to remove a cancer, or to perform heart surgery; no, we would go to a Surgeon, someone that is no only experienced to do the job, but that can also be awake while doing it. Only the blood of Jesus Christ can remove the sin from our lives; He took on the spiritual battle in our place, and He remained sinless, all the way to the cross; something that only He could do, not just because He was God in the flesh, because He was also a man, and He had a fleshly body, just like you and I; but because of His deep love relationship with the Father, He had resolve to please the Father, and to complete the task that He was sent to do. Talk about "desperation", Jesus had desperation to complete His earthly ministry, like none other! Not only did He need to make it to the cross, but He needed to do so without having sin, that He could become the perfect sacrifice. Interesting enough, that crown of thorns He wore on the cross represents our toils in trying in remain without sin; the task of becoming sinless and laboring to make it through this life without sin, Jesus worn as a crown of thorns, representing the thorns of our labor (Genesis 3:17-19). As to the weight of sin, trying to lift our sins off from ourselves, is much like what the earth upon our shoulders would look like, kind of like the Mr. Atlas image; not only are they heavy, but removing them takes a strength and a power that we not only do not possess, but we cannot obtain it, it can only be done by God; I don't care how long you have been in Christ, you still need to go to God to be spiritually clean... "Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted Word, which is able to save your souls. But be ye doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the Word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man is blessed in his deed." (James 1:19-25)