When I was growing up I would watch friends who would make odd decisions. They would drink, get a DUI or they’d brag about having sex with so and so and then find out she was pregnant and the list goes on. These kind of things always scared me and I wondered why someone would do something like this when it was scary in the first place? I was well into my adult years and rearing my own kids before I awakened to the truth that for some these actions are enticing rather than scary. In fact, there seemed to be many more who found all of this enticing rather than scary.

As a father and grandfather I have found all of this in my own family. It doesn’t change how I love each of them, but it certainly does help me understand this human nature of ours. Gratifying our emotions rather than God’s will for us is always before us. I find that my own sinful desires are less visible but that doesn’t change how God sees my sins. I am a sinner saved by God’s Grace just as my father’s sins were saved or my brother’s sins.

Today I can see dad, my brother and me standing at the foot of the Cross forgiven. How our sins were committed isn’t nearly as important as our need to confess them and surrender our lives to Jesus to live for Him. “…though our sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow….” Isaiah 1:18. It doesn’t matter the sin. What does matter is the confession.