The sinner who repents
"But if you warn righteous people not to sin and they listen to you and do not sin, they will live, and you will have saved yourself, too.”(NLT) Ezekiel 3:21
One thing we must always remember as Christians when we stumble and fall on our spiritual journey is found in 1 John 1:8-10; "If we claim we have no sin; we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth. But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness. If we claim we have not sinned, we are calling God a liar and showing that his word has no place in our hearts (NLT)".
This passage should keep our minds on Christ and His saving blood for our souls. We live in a world where everything is acceptable. The fear of God, nobody speaks of again, and we have relented to seek God’s wisdom. Many of us have taken God’s leniency based on grace in Christ to keep sinning. I am guilty of this sin and I want to believe you can relate to this too.
2 Corinthians 5:21 says: "For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ". Thus having received the status of righteousness through Christ’s atonement, we have new lives by putting on Christ. This is our heritage and it must be all that we focus on daily. Sadly this is not the case for some of us. Knowing our hearts, one can understand the constant struggle between the desires of the flesh and the spirit. The reality is everybody can fall sometimes; we only need to find the strength to rise. It happens to everyone. We thank God for giving us Christ as our immunity.
Let us not be disheartened when we fall down on our Christian journey. God knows of this weakness and He encourages us through His word to confess and be healed. When we find the strength to stand firm, let us help a brother or sister who has fallen to also rise. This way we do not only save a soul, we save ours as well and as such God will not hold the person’s death (spiritual) against us. The heart is desperately wicked, let’s be each other's keepers on the journey to heaven.