Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear. For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies; your tongue mutters wickedness. No one enters suit justly; no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity. They hatch adders’ eggs; they weave the spider’s web; he who eats their eggs dies, and from one that is crushed a viper is hatched. Their webs will not serve as clothing; men will not cover themselves with what they make. Their works are works of iniquity, and deeds of violence are in their hands. Their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their highways. The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their paths; they have made their roads crooked; no one who treads on them knows peace. (Isaiah 59:1-8, ESV)
Behold the Lord’s hand is not shortened and His ear is not dull. He can always reach you and hear you…
So when it feels like you are far from Him, why is that?
The psalmist makes it clear “your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.” It is all our doing that moves us away from God. Our nature is what creates the chasm. We are sinners, and that is what God can not be around. Our hands “are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies; your tongue mutters wickedness.” We look out for our own good, and try to make ourselves better than we are. We are looking out for number 2. (Ok really that is number 1, but we are not number 1, we are number 2…) We do things that raise us in stature and the eyes of the public. We do it for business and if we are honest we do it in the church. God sees all of this and this is what is keeping Him from us. Motivation is the key… What motivates you do to what you do, is it sacrificial or is it for your own gain?
But back to our sin… Yes we are all sinners and it can define us, it would be very easy to just write down all of the things we have done wrong and define our selves by this list, but God can and will release us from this list. As the picture above shows us, and Paul told the Romans (8:38-39) “nothing can separate us from the love of God through Christ Jesus.”
Do not be defined by the sin that separates you from God, but allow God to redefine you!
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