Proverbs 14:34 Complete Jewish Bible (CJB) Righteousness makes a nation great, but sin degrades any people.

I like this version of this proverb. Others use words like disgrace, shame, and reproach. One even goes so far as to say diminishes but I have to ask, in who’s eyes?

There are a fair amount of people in this world that deny they have sin, and that their behavior is acceptable. In who’s eyes?

Isaiah 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Woe unto them? Really, in who’s eyes? God’s of course. This word given by Isaiah was at the behest of God. You see if no one can do anything about your sin, what does it matter who’s eye is upon you.

Only God has rightly dealt with sin. At this point you may argue that sin still exists, so God has not dealt with it. He has in His sight, in His eye, just not yours. I know that sounds like double talk but think about it, if God has dealt with sin, why do you still have a problem with it?

I think it is because you haven’t seen it through His eyes. You think your sin is yours and it belongs to no one else. In God’s eye He put in all on His Son Jesus Christ and crucified it, sin, the penalty of sin is death. Sin has been executed.

So the sin you sin today, Christ died for on the Cross. How does that make you feel? Does that encourage you to go ahead and sin more because God doesn’t see it?

Try looking at it from God’s perspective. That is not a loving response to a loving gift. If you do not have a respectful attitude about this gracious gift, you have disrespected the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost.

Disrespect is a form of rebellion.