Sometimes in all the hurly-burly of looking at God's proclamation of the Law we forget that God only ever confronts sinful people with their sin. And this confrontation of sin is for one purpose and one purpose only. God confronts us with sin so as to convict us of wrong and turn us from sin to its opposite - faith. Remember, everything which is not of faith is sin. Sin and faith, faith and sin, opposites. In our readings today we see calls from sin to repentance. And those who are being called have been shown God's mercy and grace.
Are we walking according to faith? Or are we depending on ourselves? Do we believe that there is really and truly only one way to eternal life and blessing, and that the way God has appointed is through death for sin? Do we believe that Jesus himself became sin for us and that we no longer have to bear our sin because Christ has borne it on our behalf? Or do we try to wrestle righteousness into our lives by keeping the Law which is written against us to convict us of sin?
As those who have tasted the righteousness of God, for whom it has been proclaimed that Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, as those for whom Christ proclaimed on the cross, "It is finished," let us take God at his word and walk by faith.
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