Walking with the Wise #293: Inevitable

“Doing wrong leads to disgrace,


and scandalous behavior brings contempt.”
—Proverbs 18:3 (NLT)

Continuing to sin, when you know that you shouldn’t, will eventually lead to disgrace. It is inevitable. Sooner or later, your sin is going to get out. And once it gets out, there is going to be a scandal and after the scandal comes out, people are going to hate you for what you’ve done. Thankfully, Christ came to save us from our sin. His death led to His being disgraced publicly on the cross, and was the greatest scandal the world has ever known. Not to mention the contempt that unbelievers have toward Him.

As believers, we must rid ourselves of sin, as Jesus said:

“If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell”—Matthew 5:29-30.

We are to consider ourselves “dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus” (Romans 6:11), making sure that we are not letting sin reign in our mortal bodies, so that we don’t obey its passions (Romans 6:12). And don’t think that you can continue in your sin with no one finding out. The Bible says that you can’t hide it forever. You can be “sure your sin will find you out”—Numbers 32:23. Instead, confess your sins to the Lord (1 John 1:9), receive the forgiveness that Jesus died to give you, and live a life that is dead to sin and alive to God. Jesus paid the ultimate price to free us from our slavery to sin and save us from the wrath of God. And because we were “bought with a price” we are now to glorify God in our bodies (1 Corinthians 6:19).

Are you trying to hide your sin? Don’t! It inevitably leads to pain, humiliation and hatred! Confess your sin, repent of it, and then live a life of freedom that Christ died to give you! Amen.