Day 30: The Crooked Timber of Humanity
Reflecting on Adam and Eve’s original sin, Paul writes, “sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned” (Rom. 5:12). Death refers to physical mortality and spiritual inability. Not only will we stop breathing one day, but without God’s power, we are presently incapable of becoming the people God wants us to be. We are dead in our “transgressions and sins” (Eph. 2:1). We are “slave[s] to the law of sin” (Rom. 7:25). Is sin really so disabling and enslaving? We like to think of ourselves … Continue reading Day 30: The Crooked Timber of Humanity