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Isn’t it funny how many of us walk without brokenness in sin everyday? And, as long as that sin doesn’t reflect poorly on us in culture’s eyes, we continue to walk in it and bask in knowing that we are our own gods. This works until the Father of Lies takes us so far into our sin, it eventually backfires in the public eye. It’s only then that we treat our sin as sin. And in the process we allow ourselves to become a complete fool.

As I was getting settled in at work this morning, I began the ritual of my morning indulgence of Starbucks (venti bold, no room) and reading the news headlines when I stumbled across a tragic ending to a legalized infant homicide (abortion).

Sycloria Williams was 23-weeks pregnant. She arrived at an abortion clinic outside Miami for a scheduled infant homicide. After her cervix was dilated, she began waiting in the chair for the murderer – ah hem, excuse me I mean Dr. Pierre Jean-Jacque Renelique.

Knowing that life is meaningless to such a butcher as Renelique, it was no surprise that he was late for the infant’s death sentence. What was a surprise was what happened next. As she waited, the birthing process began. The baby was born alive. Just as a loyal henchman should. an unlicensed (I guess there’s a special license you have to have to kill children) assistant cut the umbilical cord, threw the baby in a biohazard bag, and tossed it in the garbage.

But that’s not even the most ludicrous part of this story. The mother is now suing the doctor and her attorney, Tom Pennekamp, released this remark:

"I don't care what your politics are, what your morals are, this should not be happening in our community,"

Followed by this gem from Tom Brejcha, president of law firm that is also representing Williams.

"The baby was just treated as a piece of garbage,"

Now let me put this into a Christian perspective and show how asinine this argument is. She is upset because the clinic worker treated the newborn like garbage. It was ok for her to schedule a death sentence for the infant. And it was ok to go through with that death sentence, as long as the infant homicide took place out of sight. And it was acceptable to allow that sin to take place within the dark confines of her womb. No one would have cared, nor would this be a story. My, my how our view of sin takes on a different meaning in our lives when we are forced to see it face-to-face.

All of the sudden, she is concerned about the baby’s welfare. Why was that? Why care all of the sudden? Why the morals out of nowhere? It’s simple. Sycloria Williams was forced to come face-to-face with her sin. Rather than her sin be consumed in the darkness of some secret place in her body, it was playing out right in front of her very eyes.

Although this horrific event seems antithetical to how most of us see our lives and our sin everyday, it is much the same. Many of us walk with our own secret sin and never give it a second thought. And unlike her, we are never confronted because our sin doesn’t make it out into the public eye.

Sin separates us from God. This is evident when we consider how Jesus trembled when he “cried out in a loud voice ‘ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI?’ which is translated ‘MY GOD, MY GOD WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?’” (Mark 15:34). Jesus was not scared of the beatings he would take. Nor was he afraid of the cross. However, it was the temporary separation from God, the Father, that Jesus endured when he took on the sins of the world that tortured him most.

Can it get any worse? You bet. Given enough time in our sin, we can reach a point beyond salvation. What? Understand that no sin is beyond God’s reach of forgiveness. But, when we get used to this type of sin, we lose the ability and urge to repent, because we start to fail to see the sin the way God sees it. It is at that point, that we create a potential point of no return beyond salvation. Sure all of our sins are forgiven when we confess them and we will be cleansed (1 John 1:9). But when we fail to take our sin sincerely, we lose the feeling of burden that sin brings and become incapable of asking for forgiveness by confession.