No Man is an Island!

During my school days, one of my English lessons was an essay titled “No Man is an Island”. I do not remember who wrote it or the entire essay but his thought has stayed with me ever since. The author explained how Man is a social being and how we need each other to live. No one can truly succeed or even survive when isolated from others. Mankind is connected at different levels, physical as well as emotional. Now the whole world has shrunk due to technology and has become a ‘global village’ and even the economy of one nation depends on other nations!

When we see the anatomy of ‘sin’, again, ‘no man or a woman is an island’. No sin affects only the person who commits it. At one level, it affects the spouse; in the next level, it affects the children and at another level, it affects the larger family unit. The ripple effect goes on and on, depending on the nature of the sin committed and impacts at different levels. When leaders sin, the whole nation suffers. Every sin, a believer commits is forgiven in Jesus Christ. Although God forgives our sins and forgets our iniquities, He does not wipe out the consequences! There is no escape from the consequences of sin. No sin is ever right or good, and no sin ever produces anything right or good. The price sin is terribly high. Sin never brings profit; it always brings loss.

The good news is, for a believer, our life never stops where and when we fall. We can truly learn some lessons from the life of King David, who sinned and then later went on to become the ‘man after God’s own heart’. David confesses in Psalm 40:2, “He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps”.

My friend, all of us have sinned without exception. But do not stay there. Come to the throne of grace for “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness”(1 John 1:9). May the Lord help each one of us to truly call our sin ‘sin’ and confess it so that we can be healed!

Categories: Weekly DevotionalsAuthor: Hephzibah StephenDate: 24th April 2018 Share: newsletterDisplay date: 25th April 2018

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