The same satanic evil force that causes serial killers to commit heinous crimes, that same evil that causes us to be incensed at the outrageousness of these acts, is the same exact evil force inside us that causes us to lie or hurt others. We so easily hurt our family, friends, and co-workers in little ways and we do not even give it a second thought. Then we watch the news and see somebody taking a hostage or doing worse things to their own family and themselves and we shudder in horror thinking we cannot relate to this kind of incredible evil. Yet God’s rule of order says all of our righteousness is as filthy rags.
To God a little sin is not okay any more than a lot of sin is wrong. If God did not call all sin wrong—no matter how small in our eyes—then where precisely does he draw the line? How much sin is okay and how much sin is overboard? That is how humans judge. Each person creates his or her own ratio factor of what amount of sin is acceptable and what is not.
One man may cheat on his wife and then watch the nightly news and think that what happened on 9/11 was shockingly wrong. That is what Hollywood does all the time. The heroes fighting so-called evil foes are cursing and sleeping with women they just met, and people look on as if this is normal and acceptable. However, to God, all sin is evil including swearing and adultery. Yes, war crimes are blatantly evil, but so is the way someone hurts someone else’s feelings when being inconsiderate. The same evil force is at play in both situations and to God sin is sin.
God’s mercy (receiving forgiveness we do not deserve) and grace (receiving a gift we do not deserve) is also outrageous. We need God’s forgiveness and grace through the blood of Christ whether someone hurts another’s feelings or whether someone commits a seemingly unforgivable heinous crime. Amazingly, because all sin is wrong to God, the precious and ever-available blood of Christ can equally forgive a white lie as well as someone else’s shocking abhorrent crime. Thank God for the precious blood of Christ.
When we surrender our lives to Christ and invite the Holy Spirit to come into our lives, the Holy Spirit will come in and help us to fight the satanic evil that torments and incites everyone to commit evil acts, big and small. Men cannot discern evil in their lives apart from God and they cannot see that even small things are outrageous and wrong to a just and holy pure God. I am thankful that God is the ultimate judge and not men in their distorted and confused human value system. I thank God that we can turn to Him for truth and direction for our lives and we have but to ask Him for it.
God is the perfect judge because He sees all, knows all, and even knows the inner hearts and motives of men so then He is able to render absolute, undeniable true justice. Let’s surrender our all to a Redeeming God who wants us to think like He does.
