Sinners
Some people (like me), avoid going to the doctor because they don’t want to find out that anything is wrong with them. But ignorance of our sickness doesn’t make us healthy. Just so, many people avoid reading or listening to the Word of God because they do not like its honest assessment of the fact that we are sinners. But ignorance of our sin does not make us innocent.
The book of Romans lays it out very clearly. We read, “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). Also, “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned” (Romans 5:12). Not a pretty picture is it? However, what people fail to realize is that there is also a cure for the disease of sin. “Much more then, being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him” (Romans 5:9). “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 6:23). Better to find out our true condition as well as the cure, than to ignore it to our eternal loss in hell.
