Corona Devo 618

Ever been "caught" in something? Something you wished you hadn't. Something you never should have done, but something that you did all the same?

Perhaps we might possibly even have been tempted to deny it, but we couldn't because we were caught red handed?

Like, when I was in high school and I was on stage with a microphone speaking as a member of National Honor Society and I fumbled in my speech and then proceeded to say the "sh" word. On stage, with a microphone, in front of a big audience of parents and families with intelligent children.

I was caught.

I am still embarrassed of that moment.

And I have about a million more "moments" that I can recall when I was "caught" doing/saying/thinking/speaking something that I shouldn't have. Sometimes by others. Sometimes by my conscience. And always by God.

You too?

Or maybe you don't get "caught" because you don't "do" wrong.

The truth is, sometimes our "wrong" is thinking that we don't do wrong, or thinking that we don't do things as wrong as someone else that we are passing judgement on. And when we're thinking that, then the sins that we're "caught" in are pride and self-righteousness.

The most wise among us will realize most readily that we all have sin. Big or little (that's our justification and opinion), but in God's opinion, it's all sin.

But want to know a counterintuitive Truth about God? He doesn't condemn us for our sin. (For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him  ~John 3:17).

God is holy, He is pure, and He is without sin. He does not condemn us for our sin, but He very much desires that we would become more and more sensitive to things that are not of His nature and that we would turn from our sin more immediately and more readily when we know Him. As humans, it is impossible to be "perfect", but as we draw our hearts and minds closer to Christ, it is not an unrealistic "goal" or intention for us to attempt to sin no more.

We each have sin, Yes.

We've each been "caught" being unfaithful to God.

But He does not condemn us. He loves us. And through His Word, His strength and His power--He admonishes (to give friendly, earnest advice/warning) us to go and sin no more.

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Jesus returned to the Mount of Olives, (2) but early the next morning he was back again at the Temple. A crowd soon gathered, and he sat down and taught them. (3) As he was speaking, the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They put her in front of the crowd.

(4) “Teacher,” they said to Jesus, “this woman was caught in the act of adultery. (5) The law of Moses says to stone her. What do you say?”

(6) They were trying to trap him into saying something they could use against him, but Jesus stooped down and wrote in the dust with his finger. (7) They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again and said, “All right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!” (8) Then he stooped down again and wrote in the dust.

(9) When the accusers heard this, they slipped away one by one, beginning with the oldest, until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd with the woman. (10) Then Jesus stood up again and said to the woman, “Where are your accusers? Didn’t even one of them condemn you?”

(11) “No, Lord,” she said.

And Jesus said, “Neither do I. Go and sin no more.”  ~John 8:1-11

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Blessings,

sarah

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