Just one sin.
One mistake.

And yet we so easily write off our own sins — but we see it everywhere else, don’t we? We can watch an outburst of violence and go about our day.

Infidelity being caught on a jumbotron — fun for people to condemn — while at the same time an execution blasted all over social media leaves half the country cheering.

An epidemic of abortion in our society, reduced to an argument about choice.

We justify what’s convenient.
We minimize what fits our agenda.

But God still clothed Adam and Eve — and taught them how to sacrifice, how to come back into relationship with Him. He didn’t abandon them, but showed severe mercy.

Yet we still reduce and minimize sin.

One sin caused every single bit of suffering we see. Every battle throughout history.

Yet we are so arrogant that we dare to approach the living God and shift the premise, as if He owes us some sort of explanation for the state of the world — for our troubles and suffering.

We have it so backwards, friends. We have to acknowledge how wrong we are to treat sin as trivial, yet blame God for its consequences — and begin asking the right questions.

When we understand the true impact of sin, we can take away the defensive questions and begin from the right perspective:
How is there such a love that has, and continues to, hold back the full-blown wrath and consequences of our sin?

Only our God can do that.

Then we can see this world as one that God is consistently redeeming — not forsaken, not abandoned — but intrepidly redeemed in El Shaddai, our God Almighty.