Millpond Ink Musing – Only Human?

“Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”
 1 Cor. 3:16

If, as Christians, we know how easy it is to fall back into sin; knowing it is our flesh and the pride of life that is at fault, how much more so the impenitent sinner to continue wantonly in his sin? The sinner has no designs to glorify God; no inclination at all. He is dead to such things. No one seeks God; no not one. The Gospel is folly to them; laughable. Christians are altogether a joke, a sneer and hiss to them, especially when we judge them according to standards that we cannot meet.

Shame on us when we justify our sin by saying, ‘We’re only human.’ The sinner may say that, but we are not ‘only human.’ Do you, Oh, Christian, know that you are the temple of the living God; Who knows your weakness and made provision for you? If you are only human, I would say that you have not heard the Gospel, and what it was that Christ accomplished for us on the cross. When we flee to that saying, ‘I’m only human,’ as an excuse, we are in effect saying that He who is in you is not greater than he who is in the world. And that to our Spirit should be anathema and cause us to recoil in shame.