Spiraling Down

1 Kings 17:25 "Omri did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and did more evil than all who were before him."

I know this isn't the most encouraging verse, and its far more common than I thought in the annals of the kings of Judah and Israel.

King after king was more evil than the last. It's a sign of the human nature. Humans, without God, will tend to drift downward into sin. Without God man quickly loses sight of what is after the character of God and what is after the character of Satan. We become like our king.

Sometimes we experience sin in the lives of those we trust, or even in our parents or loved ones. The natural tendency might be for that sin to infect us, influence us, move us away from God. It doesn't have to be that way.

When Jesus came and died to pay for those sins, he changed that dynamic. Instead of going from bad to worse in a continually downward spinning spiral, we are transformed, as Paul says, from "from one kind of glory to another" as our character is made to be like God's character.

Don't fret at a world that more and more embraces sin as sainthood, and instead embrace the God who gave all to make us like Him.

Pastor Tom