How much does one sin weigh….?
I was pondering this at the end of a rare bad day, losing my temper with a foster kiddo more than once in way that I didn’t even recognize myself.
How much does one sin cost…?
I had committed quite a few sins against the least of these – a young child who had already suffered so much.
As I lay there feeling defeated, crestfallen, undone, my mind went to the only place to go in such times: Jesus.
What does sin weigh… because after my day, my shoulders felt so heavy, my body so tired. What does sin cost…because I have no idea what the value is for this sweet kiddo’s compounded dejection or for my ashamed sorrow and lost sleep.
But Jesus…
I started doing some accounting. What was the weight and cost of the sins of my bad day…to Him? Add that to all my days past AND to all my days future. Then multiply that weight and cost times EVERY PERSON WHOEVER WALKED, WALKS OR WILL WALK THE EARTH.
You want to talk about some weight… You want to talk about some cost…
And so I let all that sink in a bit… quite a bit. And amidst the tears and the “thank you, Lord”s, I was once again reminded that I carry NO weight and NO cost because it’s already been lifted and paid. It is hard – near impossible – for us to fathom, but the answers to my original questions are these: nothing and everything. The weight and cost of each of our sins is nothing to us…because the weight and cost of ALL our sins was EVERYTHING to Him.
2 Corinthians 4:17 says that “…this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison”. How about that for perspective and contrast?
May we not be bogged down in the swamp of our bad days – for that’s one swamp that has already been drained. Our struggles are light and momentary because the weight and cost of our sins have been nullified, and in that freedom, we get to put on a new weight – one more like a down comforter on a cold night; one that is not “light” but is instead weighty; one that is not “momentary”, but is instead eternal. Praise God for that…
Well said and a good reminder of the savior who laid out his life for us.