Sin is its own punishment

“If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.” (1 Corinthians 15:19)

Hope is that small spark, the first glimmer of thought that perhaps there is an answer, that maybe there might be a positive alternative. If hope is all you have, and it never advances to a belief, and faith it can never become that knowledge that yes, God does live and Jesus is the Christ. If we fail to hope and let that seed grow and never repent – never accept the gift of forgiveness we are not only miserable we are stuck.

I understand and Christ certainly understands because he took up on himself the lives of each of us. He went through all the hurt, abuse, wrong doing, and illness of each of us and because he suffered with you he can be our advocate with his Father, who is also our Heavenly Father. He can say, Father forgive this individual. He/she was told they were worthless. They just wanted to be loved, accepted, wanted to feel worth something, or whatever burden we carry. He can do this if we let hope grow into faith and knowledge that Christ live by repenting and accepting the gift.

We have many hidden and unseen blessings which we do not recognize, but it does us little good that Christ went through the atonement if we blindly continue to make the same mistakes.

Sin is its own punishment. Angels aren’t standing over us and writing down every wrong thing we do. Nope. Not at all. In some cases guilt is the punishment. I say in some cases because I am astounded at the way we humans can justify our behavior. We can justify it all we want, but the results are the same. It’s one of those laws I like to talk about. Like the law of gravity. You drop something and it will fall, unless it is intercepted by something. That is what Christ does if you let him he can keep the falling object from hitting the ground or rock etc. Likewise, righteousness also has its reward.