If you have played darts, you will know it is harder than it looks. However, as you practice, you slowly improve. But sometimes you just keep missing your target and almost give up and lose all form. Suddenly, your darts are going everywhere, sometimes not even on the board! The word “sin” in the Bible comes from Hebrew and Greek words related to “missing the mark”. There is a moral mark that we should be hitting, but sometimes we miss it. But it’s more than this. The Greek word means not only missing the mark but not even getting close to the target! In Romans 3:23, it says, “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”. The truth is that we all miss the mark, and we are only saved by grace. So, should we resign ourselves to just missing the mark? “What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?” (Romans 6:1-2). Just like darts, we won’t always hit the mark. We will miss. But we continue to aim to hit the mark. To be better than yesterday. Knowing that “I can do all this through him who gives me strength” (Philippians 4:13). Open Bible – http://bit.ly/Rom3v23, http://bit.ly/Rom6v1-2, https://bit.ly/phi4v13 (Joshua B)
