Our sins are our mirrors

Have you ever stopped and really considered your sins? Our sins are often so shameful to us that we wish to rid ourselves of their ugly stain and rightly so. However, before we so hastily “bury” them under the blood, perhaps we ought to take a moment and ask ourselves why we did what we did. Our sins tell us things about ourselves. We usually sin because we want something good, we just go about it in the wrong way. Finding out what we want—and why we want it—can help us find an effective way to deal with the problem according to God’s plan and design. Usually we will find there is some underlying symptom—a deeper root—that needs to be dealt with.