“All have turned aside, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.” – Psalm 14:3
If this is our condition, a condition of depravity, then our only hope is reconciliation with our God. How sad a moment to not only believe that there is no God, and thus have no hope, but even worse to find pleasure in that belief.
“The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’
They are corrupt, their deeds are vile;
There is no one who does good.” – Psalm 14:1
We have all failed to meet the requirements of standing before a righteous God on our own. But we still have hope. We always have hope. It makes sense, doesn’t it, to pursue that hope.
“Remember that at that time you were separate from Christ… without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.” – Ephesians 2:12-13
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"All have turned aside", they knew what was right and what was wrong. They knew what they should and shouldn't do. They chose to do what was wrong. I wonder if they were written off as a lost cause? We do that in our society. We seem to forget that when we turned aside and sinned against Jesus, some one had to love us and want us to come back. When others do wrong we are quick to condem and not to love. It seems to me that if our overall goal is to be as like Jesus as possible we have to be like Him in all areas. We have to love because we first were loved.
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