This past week I have been doing some study on temptations with a dear sister, and it was a great study. It also got me to thinking about what actually accounts for being a sin. I know I have been guilty many times in my life of seeing sin only as a list of do not do ___________. Just fil in the blank of anything that you feel is a do not do or more importantly that Scripture calls us not to do. That certainly is one way to define sin. Yet, there is another way to define sin as well. Go ahead and take your Bible out and look at James 4:17. Did you catch what it says? There are “good” things to do, and the absence of it is sin. This definition of sin for years did not fit my list of do not sins (lying, stealing, murdering, etc). While it still technically a sin of what you do not do (not doing a good thing you know to do) it differs in that the sin is not in doing something bad, but rather in not doing something good. What good thing have you and I neglected to do? Something to think about, when we think about the sins of our lives.
