Daily Bible Readings YLT February 20th

Our God is a God who separates, who says: Be holy as I am holy. HIs way is that we must always choose between right and wrong. This is freewill.If we are ignorant of God's commands or we do something without knowing it is wrong in God's eyes, when we know it, we have a way to forgiveness by being sorry, asking God's forgiveness and, because of Jesus, the ransom of his life paid for us, we are forgiven and in our continuing life, we show we are sorry by a reformed life. We can know our wrong doing without being told, by our conscience which is God given which gives warning if we stay soft hearted to hear that warning. With repetition of ignoring such awareness of wrong, our hearts become calloused and we do not notice the warning any more. Beware the state of our heart when it ignores the uncomfortable feeling of choosing a wrong action or words and pushes ahead regardless. Stop! and do not go that way.But if we deliberately disobey, knowing what God has said we should or should not do, then we need a saviour to save us from the judgment that God justly will bring to bear on us when we are judged. Adam and Eve did not express their contrition, instead justifying their action as Adam did, the woman whom You (God's bad judgment is implied and therefore His fault and His responsibility) didst place with me, gave me of the fruit of the tree and I did eat, or explaining it, as Eve did, "the serpent hath caused me to forget and I did eat" but neither expressed sorrow. God judges and God justly punishes. Without one to intercede, a saviour, we cannot escape God's righteous judgement.It is given for human beings to die once and then to face judgment. Neither blaming God nor our own weakness nor the circumstances we find ourselves in and which we may blame for our actions, can excuse us - we need a Saviour.If we do not throw ourselves upon the mercy of God through Jesus our saviour, we are lost - we have no other way to be reconciled with God. Nevertheless remember this, that Jesus did not come into the world to condemn it but to save it. He has made a way for every person in the world to be saved but we are tasked with responsibility for choosing to be saved.