He will turn again, he will have
compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their
sins into the depths of the sea. (Mic
7:19)
Jesus told the parable of wedding
feast and the end was a startling remark, ‘For many are called, but few are
chosen’ (Matt 22:14). The grace of God extents to all and sundry, the first
respond is faith to believe that the Father has sent the Son to save us from
sin. The second respond is our responsibility to deal with sin (2 Cor 7:1), as
much as faith without actions is dead.
Iniquity is the depravity of
human rebellion against God, rejecting His will and living for our own desire. It
is only God Who can put the death blow to our personal depravity and cast it
into the sea, never to surface again. Faith is not trying not to sin, but
believing that we have been endowed with Christ’s life that we don’t have to sin.
It is also to believe that sin no longer has dominion over us (Rom 6:14). He
will indeed again have compassion on us; it is whether we are willing to let
Him do His sovereign work. When Jesus told the woman taken in adultery to ‘go,
and sin no more’, it is not a futile suggestion but a command. The same authoritative speaking
that commanded ‘Let there be light: and there was light’ (Gen 1:3).
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