SIN IS MISSING THE MARK AND ALL HAVE MISSED IT
All humanity has missed the mark of God’s righteousness. Therefore, all humanity falls short of being able to get right with God by our own effort. For even our best efforts are as “filthy rags” (Isa. 64:6) before the Lord. The word “sin” seems to have originated as an archery term, meaning to “miss the mark,” or to have missed the bulls eye. So, we have all missed the bulls eye of God’s glorious standard of righteousness.
For this reason, God provided One who fulfilled His glorious standard of righteousness to pay for our sin. He took our sin, separation and death and offers His righteousness, Sonship, and eternal life. His name is Jesus and He alone has hit the mark, so that by faith in Him we might be saved from our sin and made right with the Father.
The idea of sin is not popular today. In this age of relativism, we have become like those in the time of the Judges when “all the people did whatever seemed right in their own eyes” (Judges 21:25). We have become like the people whom the prophet Isaiah warned, “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness” (Isa. 5:20). For our generation has denied its sinfulness by calling it good. They have become like the people of the last days of whom the apostle Paul wrote, they “did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness” (1 Thess. 2:12).
Yet there is good and evil and sin is still sin. And those who admit their sin and trust in Christ as the payment for their sins, will be made right with God. As Paul wrote, “People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding his blood” (Rom. 3:25).
PRAYER: Dear Father, we have confessed our sin to You and believed in Jesus for our salvation. We have been made right with You by faith in Christ. We praise You for this! And we ask that You convict the world of sin by Your Spirit that they might turn to You and believe. In Jesus’ name, amen.