"Not Ashamed"

"Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments." (Psalms 119:6)

 You do know we are going to be in this Psalm for a little while, don't you? I thought about taking on several verses at a time, but what's the fun in that? I have determined in my heart to continue this as long as Marianne is still with us; but even then, that might not be what causes me to stop. As Paul was speaking about there being no condemnation for those who belong to Christ, his point was based upon the fulfillment of the law; Jesus fulfilled the law and the condition we all were in for breaking it. Sin had been taken care of, including the penalty of sin, which was death! When we come to the cross, repenting for our sins, we are cleansed! This is something the lost cannot understand; they can't understand it, one because they cannot see the weight of sin in their lives, and two, because they don't know what it feels like to be free from it. You can try to explain it till you are blue in the face, but until they see their need and get free, they are totally unable to know what it is like. This is what that word, "respect," is talking about, that ability to consider; 'to look that ye may see!' How can we know anything without paying attention and considering what and why it is there? Paul uses the example of the law being a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, because it teaches how broken we really are and that we are in need to be fixed. We cannot fix ourselves! If we could, then Jesus would not have had to come and die on that cross for us. There is really such a shape contrast between the two ways for us to be; we are either in Christ and free from sin and death, or we are not in Christ and condemned! What is the thing stopping people from seeing that? Believe it or not, it is being ashamed...

""God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him. There is no judgement against anyone who believes in him. But anyone who does not believe in him has already been judged for not believing in God's one and only Son. All the judgment is based on this fact: God's light came into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light, for their actions were evil. All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed. But those who do what is right come to the light so others can see that they are doing what God wants."" (John 3:17-21) NLT