Judgment


She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more. (John 8:11)


When sinners confront the Holy God, what would He say? When sinners confront us our stature of self righteousness wells up and lay a condemnation that he or she must attain to ‘my’ standard. Jesus did not lay condemnation but just declared over them ‘go, and sin no more’. In judging sinners, the Holy, Holy, Holy God does not put the sinner down, trample and squash them till they cannot rise above their sin. That is what we do. His words are loving, ‘go, and sin no more’, that is ‘I have given you power not to walk in sin anymore, my child, live in that promise’ (Jer 31:34). There is power of life that is imparted. But we can potentially impart death (Prov 18:21), remember, don’t be the one to drive the last nail into the coffin.