Issues, Mistakes & Accidents

On Cincinnati local News Channel 9, there was an article about a wife who tried to poison her husband.

The clip is brief but in short the wife was mad and decided to poison her husband’s beer. He became ill and drove himself to the hospital. Luckily he seems to be ok. His wife is currently in jail.

Here is where the story gets wierd and we hear many like it everyday. In an interview the husband admitted that he was not mad at his wife. She has been under a lot of stress lately and she can’t be blamed. From the interview one would gather that charges would not be issued.

The husband was either loving or insane, b/c he did not want to do see her justly prosecuted. Now we don’t know what was causing the stress. Perhaps he was a infidel in the marriage or something worse. We don’t know.

I bring this up b/c one fact remains. We live in a world that so readily writes off actions as something other than they are. This man’s life was threatened by his wife, yet he overlooked it as if nothing really happened. That to me is a real problem. 

In todays world we write so much off as Issues, Mistakes or Accidents that are not. We have become such a non-judgemental world that to tell someone they have a problem or have done wrong is not right. But in the end these issues, mistakes and accidents can only be classified as one thing, sin.

We cannot remove the culpability of others and say, “They couldn’t help it or they had a hard past.” The fact remains no matter the past, present or future, it is a sin to do that which is outside the Commands of God. Did this lady have problems? Sure I would guess so, but the fact remains she has sinned and is a murderer. Even though her husband did not die the thoughts that produced an action show she had murder in her heart (1 John 3:15.)

We must begin to own up to our misdeeds and sin. We cannot take the easy way out. If we victimize or bail ourselves out then we will never come to a full understanding of our own sinful nature and never really ever be fully aware of the need for a Savior.

Society has tried to convince itself that it is good and for the most part will do good things. And if a issue, mistake or accident happens we claim we were doing the best we could. Then we proceed to blow it off and move on.

In the end scripture tells us clearly that we are always thinking of evil to do.

• Genesis 6:5
  The LORD saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.

 We must stand up and see that sin is ours and ours alone to accept. There is no writing it off. Only the blood of the Savior and our acceptance and repentance can remove sin.