The Omnipresence of Jesus Christ In Light Of My Sin

Current Song: "Let It Go" by The O.C. Supertones

As I sit here in the hotel lobby, my mind started to dwell on yesterday. If you are a person who claims the name of Christ and has struggled with a specific personal sin for a good deal of your life as a believer, you'll know what I'm talking about. It's so easy to become numb to sin if you commit that same sin over and over. The thought of losing the zeal for a real conviction of sin should scare all believers of Jesus. As believers, we should always want our sin to so shame and convict us that it turns us to the only true remedy. Namely, Jesus Christ. What a massive law of treason to claim the name of Christ and yet so blatantly sin against Him. As I dwell upon my own personal struggles in my daily life, I think this morning about the omnipresence of Jesus.

How would we act if we really lived our lives constantly knowing that Jesus is next to us and watching? What kind of sins in the secret of our lives would we do no more if we truly believed that Jesus was there watching? How would our thought life be? What words would we think? Of all things, I am sure that all people would be ashamed if Jesus were to appear in all His glory exposing us for all the secret sins in our lives. The manliest atheist would run and hide for the shame upon him. And what of God's people? My prayer is that God would instill in me such a reality of knowing Jesus' omnipresence so that the next time I am tempted to sin in secret it would be humanly IMPOSSIBLE to sin. I close with the thought of the apostle Paul and his struggle with sin.


Romans 7:13-25

13 Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. 15 For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. 17 So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.

21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. 22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, 23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.