Stuck in sin?
Do you feel reluctant to pray?
When you know you have stepped into disobedience…
When you have let your heart grow cold…
Are you slow to get together with God?
When you have neglected His Word…
When you have tried to hide from His presence…
Doesn’t it seem easier to just stay away?
It can be hard to get back on track. Our sin can make us feel we need to keep away from Christ. But isn’t that exactly wrong? Isn’t our sin why we must flee to Christ?
M’Cheyne had this feeling. And he knew what to do with it:
“I feel when I have sinned an immediate reluctance to go to Christ. I am ashamed to go. I feel as if it would not do to go, as if it were making Christ the minister of sin, to go straight from the swine-trough to the best robe, and a thousand other excuses. But I am persuaded they are all lies direct from hell.
John argues the opposite way—‘If any man sins, we have an advocate with the Father;’ Jeremiah 3:1 and a thousand other scriptures are against it. I am sure there is neither peace nor safety from deeper sin, but in going directly to the Lord Jesus Christ. This is God’s way of peace and holiness. It is folly to the world and to the beclouded heart, but it is the way.”
—Robert Murray M’Cheyne