What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? – Romans 6:1-2

Have you ever continued doing something you knew was wrong just because you could get away with it? You continue to lie because it doesn’t hurt anybody and because nobody will call you out on it.

You continue to watch porn because it doesn’t hurt anybody in the middle of the night. You continue to do drugs because it takes the edge off and nobody really cares. But perhaps we can take this paradigm into more of a grey areas of relationships.

We piss off our friends because we know they’ll forgive us. How about disregard our parents words because they would never throw us out of the house. We bash the self esteems of our significant others because they would never leave us.

The point is that if we know we can get away with it, we would take advantage of it and push the limits of whatever it is that we’re trying to do without suffering the scathing consequences.

We do this exact same thing with God. We know that Jesus died for our sins past, present and future; and therefore our mistakes and actions are forgivable, so we use that as license to do whatever we want uninhibited. Why not? The grace of God covers a multitude of sins right? It’s kind of ridiculous logic, but we are kind of ridiculous as a culture.

In thinking about this, because I am certainly guilty of this, and I am sure we all are, I ask: why do we want to continue to live in bondage this way? Isn’t intentionally living in bondage after being set free a sin in itself? Isn’t the expectation of grace a self entitled load of disrespect to the one bestowing it so generously?

It’s time to come clean and fix up our attitudes and behaviors. It’s time to weigh the worthiness of the grace we receive and leverage our lives toward it.

We need to stop living in the sinful expectation of receiving grace for our sins.