Sin Wears A False Nametag

We easily mislabel sin because we do not want to admit that what we are doing is wrong.   #daybydaylw   Interested in learning more about becoming a devoted follower of Christ? Go to follow.lifeword.org.   ~~~   Sin doesn’t come to us with the name tag of sin, but wearing some other name. We see it for what it is right now on this page of scripture, but how easily do we excuse sin in our own lives, and others’ sin by using false labels. How often do we excuse young men of their laxness by calling it adolescence? How often do we excuse a young man’s mischievousness by saying, “Boys will be boys,”? How often do we excuse someone’s greed and stinginess by calling it prudent and thrifty? How often do we try to lessen adultery by saying, “I fell in love,”? You see what I mean? We easily mislabel sin because we do not want to see what we are doing as sin, and therein lies the lie, the treachery, the deceitfulness. This is why it is important the counsel we keep, and we guard from whom we take advice. Jonadab noticed Amnon’s misery, and lept at the chance to get some type of advantage, some leverage, some favor in his pocket to cash in at a later point in time. Be careful of the ones who tell you what you already want to hear, who mislabel sin for you, who are unwilling to lay before the full effects that your sin will cause.