It’s sin that seeks to expose you, not God!

Sin seeks to hide from the eyes of God, and it’s hiding place is in you

In J.R. Tolkiens’ great work, The Lord of the Rings, we find straightaway that the one ring to rule them all possessed a little-known secret: It wanted to be found. If Frodo’s journey was already laden with dangers beyond imagination, the desire of the ring made it all the more impossible. That ring presents a powerful picture of the true nature of sin. Sin wants to be found in you. It seeks to expose itself at the worst possible time. The larger the audience, the  better timed sin plans to throw back the curtain and reveal itself.

This principle is seen in Numbers 32:23 - “...behold, you have sinned against the LORD, and be sure your sin will find you out.” I can remember as a young boy being told that God could expose my true sin nature at any time, and this became my erroneous view of the Fear of the Lord. While it is true, it is not accurate in relation to a believer’s relation with God. It is sin that exposes itself, and God’s love and grace which actually keeps it covered. Even when sin publicly hurt

s, it’s God’s grace which heals us. However, sin desires you to blame it all on God. Isn’t this what Adam ultimately did when he was confronted by God? “...The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.” (Genesis 3:12)

Sin seeks to attack your thoughts, attitudes, relationships and most definitely your actions and use them as a piece of its machinery in resisting God. It once enslaved you with powers which were aimed to subjugate and separate you from God, and it never ceases in its attempts to pull you back into its slavery; and, if it can’t in reality, it will through deception.

It wants to manufacture you as a sin appliance; a cylinder in its engine; a generator of its influence to provide it with horse-power. Sin wants to make you into an implement of evil; an instrument to be played; a pot in which to store its vileness and a means to a dreadful end. If it can, it will use you as a weapon, and collectively use Christians as an arsenal of evil against anything righteous, and will take entire congregations and use them as power-plants or transformers for its wicked purposes. It will twist the life of a Christian to such a degree that in the end, we become driven by pride and anger which hardly represents Jesus Christ. Sin seeks to hide from the eyes of God, and it’s hiding place is in you.

This is not the right of sin against the Christian, but it is its plan. There is a way; a spiritually natural way to deal with sin when it seeks to find refuge in your body, and I’ll introduce it in my next blog post.