Be The Fruit

Sin is Illogical

by Bill Blair on 28/10/08 at 7:20 am

Have you ever thought about sin having a logical component to it?  Think about it.  What sense does it make to disobey the Almighty God?  Why would you do anything to anger the God who spoke all of creation into existence?  When you think about power of God along with our finitude it is clear that God would be able to vaporize us anytime for rebelling against him.  I think it is clear that it just does not make any logical sense to disobey God.

Thinking of sin as illogical begins to make more sense of the text stating, “The fear of the Lord is beginning of wisdom” (Prov 9:10).  If obedience to God is the only logical choice then it follows that our wisdom only begins when we begin to fear Him.

We need to remember this fact in dealing with our own sin as well as the sin of others.  It important to remember that sin is illogical because when we sin we will often not be thinking logically.  Think about how people get lost in sin and throw so much of their lives away.  For example, people who may commit adultery and rip apart a marriage and a family are often dumbfounded as to what caused them to do such a thing.  In other cases, people have reasons for what they do, but such reasons only seem to make sense to them.  I know for me, when I am working through an area of sin, I feel like an idiot because it seems like even simple tasks become cumbersome. 

I think it is important to remember how we cease to be logical in sin because it shapes how we need to look at the process of change.  When we attempt to change or to help others change we need to turn to the Scriptures, the word of God, to shape us.  When we are working through sin, we need to repent and conform ourselves to His word.  This process takes conviction to break through our spiritual blindness to open our eyes to the truth and the wisdom of God.

Sin at its essence is a moral issue, but it is clear that we can take this moral component away and it still does not make any sense.  Yet, the thing we all try to do when we sin is to try to rationalize our behavior.  We may blame our parents, blame circumstances, or try to pretend that we had no other option, but this does not make any logical sense either.  Rationalizing our sin does not make any sense because a remedy for sin has been given through the Cross of Jesus.  If we own our sin, we know that such sin has been paid for and we can learn to move forward with the help of the Spirit and grow more into the likeness of Christ.

So let us all put off our illogical behavior and begin to fear the Lord.  Let us  own our sin, let us admit our sin, let us confess our sin and remember that “he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).  When it comes to sin, confession, repentance, and obedience are our only logical choices.