His Blood is Greater than My Sin

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And why isn't God pleased? It's because he knows that each of you men has been unfaithful to the wife you married when you were young. You promised that she would be your partner, but now you have broken that promise.   Didn't God create you to become like one person with your wife? And why did he do this? It was so you would have children, and then lead them to become God's people. Don't ever be unfaithful to your wife.

Malachi 2: 14 - 15

The ultimate and most important job of a father is to lead his children to become God’s People!  When a man breaks the solemn promise he made to his wife, he seriously damages, if not destroys his ability to lead his children to be God’s People.

You see marriage is not about happiness, fulfillment, satisfaction, peace, joy or any other of the many things we seek by being married.  Being faithful to your wife is ultimately about leading the next generation to know God!  When you disqualify yourself from that task, it doesn’t matter how much comfort you have found in your illicit actions.

Adam was created first and then Eve.  It is indeed true that a man is responsible for being the “head” of his family.  Even as cutting off the head of a snake renders it harmless, cutting off the head of a family makes it very hard to fulfill the God given responsibility of a father!

That is the bad news, but the good news is this: Doctors my have learned how to reattach a severed hand, but Jesus knows how to put heads back in place when they have been attacked and even cut off by Satan! 

So if you think that your situation is “hopeless” and beyond repair, you don’t know Jesus Christ!  There is no problem too big for Him to solve!  There is no hurt to great for Him to soothe the pain.  And there is no sin that cannot be washed away by His wonderful blood!  If you think that Jesus cannot heal the hurt and bring life back where your sin has brought death, then you would be the first person in all of history whose sin was bigger than the Power of the Cross!

“Lord Jesus, may all my steps today be firmly planted in faithfulness to You and everyone I love, but help me to reject the lie that my sin is bigger than Your Mercy and Grace and the Power of Your Blood!  Praise Your Holy Name now and forever.  Amen.”