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1Someone once described sin to me as: “Shove off God, I’m in charge, No to your rules.”

Think of it like this: your commanding officer tells you to fall in; but you walk off. He tells you to start tabbing; but you sit down and take the weight off your feet. He wants you at training in an hour; you get there three hours later and without any gear . . .

What happens next? It’s not hard to see where this is going. You’d be disciplined and probably given your marching orders – literally!

You see, in this example, you haven’t just done stuff wrong; you’ve totally damaged your relationship with your commanding officer. He’s not likely to ever trust you again or want you anywhere near his regiment.

This is kind of what sin is like. Sin is all about putting ‘me’ first and ignoring God, our ultimate Commanding Officer. It’s not just doing ‘bad stuff’. It’s about having broken our relationship with God beyond anything we can sort out on our own. That’s why we need God’s help to fix the problem. On our own, we’re stuck with it and due His discipline.

— Gary, an Our Daily Bread reader

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