Sin, what it is...

Once again we are having conversations at dinner about the state of Christianity. We asked Audrey what she thought about her generations cavalier thoughts on sin.  How they can get drunk, cuss out and shoot the finger to anyone, sleep around and then put on facebook how much they love God. Joey and I were talking about how when we were younger, he rebelled and he went to church for his mom's happiness, but he had guilt and shame and never walked around like he was in good standings with Christ at the time. Audrey stated that she thinks that her generation doesn't really believe in a wrathful God.  They have had a good life, not much pain, nor had to fight for anything worth fighting for.  They don't see the consequences of their sin, they did something wrong, oh well I will do better next time.  They don't understand the lasting effects sin has on ones life. Things that we choose to do everyday has a consequence whether good or bad, choosing to purposefully sin will have a lasting effect on a Christian.  Choices we make today might not effect us immediately but 10 years down the road it can, example: I am meeting with a young single mom who was saved a couple of months ago. She is raising her son alone with no input from the child's dad, thank goodness the dad's parents are involved.  But Cory mentioned the other day how her dad was not a active parent in her life and she does not want this for her son, but now she has a child and the same thing is happening to him. Did she think years ago when she was living with this man out of wedlock and then getting pregnant that her son now would be alone without a central male figure in his life, no, she was living in the moment ( remember,she was not saved at the time). But now her actions have a reaction that she has to live with 4 years later and for years to come. I think the deal is we need to know what the Bible says about sin and call it what it is, whether it is pride, laziness, no self-control, unkindness, lack of love for others, hatefulness, lust, I can go on for hours, we unfortunately zero in on a few sins that are biggies and leave the ones that effect most of us daily alone.  I need to zero in on my daily sins and not try to rationalie them away but admit them so I don't have a lasting effect in years to come.