the truth about sin
I know there can be a temptation to dismiss this post and hit exit, but don't let your emotions dictate whether you stick through this one. Press in!
Sin can feel like a very Christianese word and most times when we lack understanding of the heart of God behind certain words like, 'sin' or 'repent' --it can tend to make us feel condemned and judged. We can become turned off, so we tune out.
However, God is not wagging his finger at you disapproving of you. He upholds standards of love and when we go about living lives of sin without repentance, it causes there to be a breach in our relationships with Jesus.
Sin is not God’s invention to trap or shame you. It’s the breaking of connection with the life He breathed into you. It’s when what is good and whole inside you gets twisted, and you turn away from what makes your soul thrive.
God’s heart isn’t about punishment first—It’s about pain. Pain over what sin steals:
Joy, peace, freedom, and the closeness He longs for. Sin fractures that relationship, but it doesn’t break God’s love.
The truth is, sin isn’t just “doing wrong.” It’s missing the mark of who you were made to be— A reflection of God’s love and light. When sin happens, it’s not a final label of who you are.
God waits—not with a list of rules—but with open hands, ready to heal what sin damages. He wants to restore the connection, the trust, the life. His love pursues you fiercely, even when you wander.
So the truth about sin? It’s real, it’s painful, and it separates, but it’s never greater than the love that calls you back, that refuses to give up on the beauty inside you.
Let’s view sin as a conflict that requires healthy conflict resolution as it’s God’s kindness that leads us to repentance. Romans 2.
Every healthy relationship has good communication and also has great conflict resolution.
Let’s pray,
God, I thank you that you have given me free-will and that you are not condemning me for any choices I have made, but you are lovingly calling me to come up higher with you, and to uphold the standards of love. I know you want me to come to you just as I am, but I also know that your love is too good to leave me the same way you found me. Thank you that your love truly transforms me. There have been times where I have seen you deliver other people from certain ways of living + thinking, but I've often questioned if you could do that for me. Sometimes it's felt like I've done too much wrong for you to truly forgive me and make me new and other times I've felt like walking with you requires too much rules and religion. Deliver me from these beliefs Jesus. Help me with my unbelief. Forgive me for lacking in faith in these areas, I really want to believe you but I just ask that you would increase my faith and help me with my trust issues.
Today, I want to come before you, giving you all of my shame that has been a result of sin within my life. All the times I've lied, gossiped, cheated, stole, had inner judgments towards others, and also for the doubt that has been rooted within my mind. These areas have become compromises that have caused me to not come fully to you in confidence and it's caused me to not love others well. Thank you Jesus that you do not gossip, cheat, steal or unleash on me.
There's even been times where I have excused and accused the choices of my life to feel as though my sin is no big deal but deep down, I know I shouldn't tolerate it. I really want to live a joyful life but I have often felt like if I come to you that it means I will be stripped of all the things I enjoy like....(insert your choices that are pleasurable but not purposeful....sex outside of marriage, getting drunk, doing drugs, lusting after the cares of the world..)(be raw and real with God)
I want to understand your ways so I can truly live this walk out with you and know how to BEHOLD YOU and abide in you without feeling like I will be dull and slothful.
Anger, lust, greed, jealousy, and anxiety have sometimes crept into my heart and it's caused me to live in ways I am not proud of but I just want to understand the ROOT of these sins so I can truly have a whole soul that doesn't operate from fragile + wounded places but from an overflow state of your love.
Sin began from the garden all the way back in Genesis and I know the world we live in has sooo much sin surrounding me. Much of what I see unfolding in our world is a result of the sin springing forth out of the hearts of many and I want to understand this concept more Jesus.
Quicken my heart to be sensitive to sin, so I can acknowledge it and confront it aggressively + quickly in order to keep in step with you as I want to walk in liberty without the accuser(the enemy) trying to accuse me consistently. I want to display your joy, love and peace so forgive me when I get it wrong and help me be led by your wisdom and your ways. In name of Jesus.
Much love, as always,
jordyn
