"An Open Book"

"O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me." (Psalms 139:1)

  If the is one thing that we should be thankful about, seeing how God knows everything there is to know about us, is that we are free to own every single sin that He reveals in us. I was reminded of something last night, as Pastor Bryan said these words: "You can't give it away, till you own it." How often we see something in us that God has shown us, and immediately we start looking either for the one responsible for it or for the association it might have with others, as in, does it seem normal and a common sin. I guess you could call that sharing your sin; where you don't feel as bad for it being part of you, because it is part of so many others too. I heard Pastor Mike sharing on this the other day, as a caller ask, "If David said, "Against you only have I sinned," does that mean he did not sin against Bathsheba or Uriah?" I had to turn up the radio a little, just so I could hear his answer, because I had to hear what was going to be said. The bottom line, from what I gathered, is that God is the only one that we can actually sin against. We commit sin with one another; but it is God alone to whom we are held accountable for those sins. To be perfectly honest, we can commit sin with someone else, and they don't even need to know they have been involved in our sin. Uriah had no clue that David had him killed; as far as he knew, he was just being trusted as the warrior that he was, as he was one of David's 37 mighty men. Jesus put it into perspective, as He said: "But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart." (Matthew 5:28) So you tell me, how does that woman know that she has been offended by your sin? She does not, unless you let her know. But God knows! Something else that Jesus said, which goes back to what I closed with yesterday, as He told a religious man what true religion looked like...

""For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, lest their deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God."" (John 3:17-21)