As a believer, when is the last time you thought about the crushing weight of your own sin? When was the last time you even heard the subject broached (not counting spouses, parents or children)?
It's not that I am unaware of my own sin; its ubiquitous presence makes it hard for me to discount its existence. But I think it's the sense of its weight that I have often failed to appreciate. And what I learned in a recent teaching on the subject is that when I don't comprehend the gravity of my own sin, I will inevitably fail in my repentance of it, my disdain for it, and ultimately my ability to accept God's grace in resisting the temptation to repeat it in the future. This is how I can allow besetting sin to become simply an acceptable (to me) part of 'who I am', instead of a vulgar weed that has taken root in an otherwise tended garden.
If any of this resonates with you, I want to share this teaching from a Texas pastor named Voddie Baucham.
Voddie Baucham: Christian Brokenness
I am so thankful that we have men like this in our pulpits today. Undeterred by the lure of filling lots of seats with ear-tickling sermons that appeal to our flesh, this man's passion for preaching the Word in all of its rich, difficult, and even painful Truth, is a breath of fresh air, and a feast for the soul.
