When we sin against God there is always some kind of cost

One of the Old Testament passages that most helps me visualize and understand God's call to balance between holiness and grace is the passage where the life of King David is presented to us, in that sad episode where King David falls into adultery with Bathsheba, the wife of one of his most competent and honorable generals, Uriah.

And in that passage we know the story well, King David tempted in a very powerful way sees this beautiful woman from his roof bathing naked, he is filled with lust, he orders that they bring her home, he has an illicit relationship with her and this woman becomes pregnant and David trying to hide his sin and avoid a national scandal and especially that it is one of his most honorable generals tries to hide this and calls Uriah to his house in the field of war to go to his house and He goes to bed with his wife and that as in that way he tries to hide what happened, but Uriah, a man of honor, refuses to go home thinking that his men are going through so much work in the field of war and he does not sleep with his woman and then David goes to a terrible Machiavellian solution of having this honorable man assassinated to try to cover up the situation.

But we know that God sees all things and it is one of the things that we have to understand, that when we sin and offend the Lord God will always know things, we can never hide from God's eye and before we sin we always have to know that.

I say that there are two beings, I say that three beings who always know what we are doing: the first is our conscience, which hurts and suffers damage when we sin against God. Like Adam and Eve we feel fear, we feel distance between God and us. One of the things that should prevent us from sinning is simply the fact that when we sin we dirty our minds, we feel that distance is established between us and God and we can no longer go to God with the same ease and freedom.

And this then distances us and neutralizes us in our prayer life, our study of the Word, our ministries, our ability to enjoy communion with God and therefore sin is terrible because there is an immediate consequence that rests on ourselves. .

The second person who sees what we do evidently is God, He knows all things. When Adam and Eve sinned God knew it, when David supposedly sinned in secret God sees the whole terrible spectacle and when each one of us commits a sin, whether of thought, word, action, or omission, God sees it and we have to know that there is not that we can do of which God is not aware and that He as a just Father, as a God of justice and who respects His Word is forced to have some kind of discipline over our lives.

When we sin against God there is always going to be some kind of cost, there is going to be some kind of discipline and loss in some dimension because God's justice is always fulfilled. I think of a verse right here in Galatians 6, interestingly in this chapter 6 of Galatians where there is so much talk of grace and restoration there is a verse that says, verse 7: "Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked, for everything that man will sow that will also reap. "

God sees all things and when we offend Him there is also a very serious cost, which is to reap what we sow. In other words, our own conscience sees us, God sees us and finally Satan, the one who does not forgive absolutely, sees us. Satan does not know mercy, grace, love, he only knows accusation and evil intentions and he is going to come before God as the great prosecutor that he is and he is going to accuse us and he is going to want and demand that God punish us, and He is going to try to discredit us before God and God in His justice is going to have to touch us many times with His Finger of justice and judgment and we are going to receive condemnation.

The Bible says that Satan like a roaring lion walks around looking for someone to devour, who to attack. He says that we do not give room to the devil either and when we sin there is cost, there is loss and we reflect all of that in David's life. David writes in a Psalm and says that: "While I kept silent my bones grew old" while I did not confess my sin I felt the Hand of God sinking within me and I grew old because when one is in sin and has no restoration and there is no confession, no there is regret, one feels the burden within one and the aging of his psyche and spirit, right? David experienced all of that.

So we first see this call to holiness. David abused his position as priest of God and divinely appointed monarch and we clearly see that there were dire consequences. God sees his sin and sent the prophet Nathan as we will see later to point it out and denounce the sin that he had secretly committed but had not been.

So in this meditation I just want to point out that aspect, right? the call to holiness because we are talking about balance. On the one hand, we are going to see that, right? God did not leave that alone there, but He took action on the matter and made sure to bring this to light and that part constitutes the call of this text to a holy life. In our next meditation we are going to look at the call to grace and mercy and how God balances both.