The Infection of Sin

October–1347.  A fleet returning from the Black Sea carries its death sentence for Europe.  Most of the sailors are dead.  The few who survive wish they hadn’t. Before it’s over, one-third of Europe’s population will be dead from bubonic plague!

Twenty-five million people died.  No cure was known.  No hope offered.  The healthy quarantined the infected.  The infected counted their days.  But was it humanity’s deadliest scourge?  No.

Scripture reserves that title for a darker blight.  It makes the plague seem like a cold sore.  No culture avoids, nor person sidesteps the infection of sin.  Sin sees the world with no God in it.

The Bible says “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 2 Corinthians 5:21.”  Christ became that sin offering.  He overcame the punishment for sin–death–through his glorious resurrection from the dead!

From: Come Thirsty