Crossroad Bible Study

After Crossroad on Sunday night, some of us walked outside to see a drunk man stumbling about.  He had such a lack of control that he fell into the street.  Providentially, there were no cars coming on Queen Street and he was able to pick himself up and get out of the street before he was run over!  Several of us waited around and few brave souls (Matt and John) talked with him as we waited for the police to come.  We were worried that if we left him he would be a danger to himself!

In seeing him stumble about, part of me felt annoyed that he would be so careless as to drink so much and as a result put himself and others in danger.  But another part of me thought, “That could be me.”  I know that with my tendency for sin and without God’s protection, I can be just as selfish as that drunk man.  In reading Genesis 3, we are reminded of how much sin truly effects us.

Before the fall and before Adam and Eve are banished, we see the close communion that they have with God.  God talks to them as friends and directly in an audible voice.  After they are banished as the devotional points out the biggest consequence of sin was that “it caused a breakdown in our relationship with God”.  That is why you and I and that drunk man stumble around.  We are no longer reconciled to Our Creator and thus, we can live selfish, incontinent lives.

Certainly, we can cling to the hope of Christ.  And we will see the redemption story, I am sure, as we read more of the E100 passages.  But sometimes, for me, it is good to pause and remember how awful sin is.  I think about how much I have stumbled and how much more I would stumble without the Lord.