Just How Sick Are You?

As humans we like to believe the best in people. "Man is basically good at the core" I've heard a lot. We look to people like Ghandi and Mother Teresa as examples of what we should aspire to. "If left to himself, humans would tend towards the good." That's another thing I've heard many times.

According to the Scriptures, that's faulty logic. Man left to himself would tend towards Adolf Hitler, not Mother Teresa.

One example of the real truth about the human condition is found right at the beginning of the writings by the prophet Isaiah.

Isaiah 1:5b "The whole head is hurt and the while heart is sick. From the sole of the foot even to the head, no spot is uninjured - wounds, welts, and festering sores not cleansed, bandaged, or soothed with oil."

Why is this so, and why the disconnect between reality and our version of it? Evil came into the human soul in the Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve decided to believe the serpent instead of God and disobey Him.

Jeremiah 17:9 tells us that the heart of man is "deceitfully wicked". So while we think we tend towards evil, our souls fool us into thinking we are good inside. And anything that is not good like God cannot exist in His presence.

So what's the answer? Read on in Isaiah 1:18 "Come, let us discuss this," says the Lord. "Though your sins be as scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they be as red as crimson, they will be like wool."

How does that happen? Only when our lives are "washed in the blood of the Lamb." (Revelation 7:14).

Jesus Christ is the Lamb - perfect, yet offered to take your death so He can give you His life. Read about Him in John 5 and 10.

There is sickness and there is cure. Will you realize just how sick you are and that there is a free cure that cost God everything?

Pastor Tom