Sunday Reflection, Sin Wants to Be Our Friend---The Sad Story of Pastor Jack Schaap

EVERY HAPPENING, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

THIS IS WHO SIN IS. Sin is the friend who is so much worse than any enemy.

(Appendix: This is where Tolkien’s ring is such a powerful illustration of sin. From the moment a person puts that ring on his finger, the ring is out to dominate and to destroy him. The ring has a mind of its own, a mind that is bent on destruction. The ring will be satisfied only when it has ensured that the ringbearer is overcome, overwhelmed, and destroyed. All of its promises merely lead to a greater kind of enslavement that leads toward death.)

This from Tim Challis.

Over and over again, we see that sin and Satan promise us everything---to be as gods---and only delivers heartache upon heartache. Sin wants to incapacitate and destroy us. Only the Cross of Christ begins to take us out of bondage and into the freedom of serving God through Jesus Christ.