One man wrote the following:

Man calls sin an accident,
God calls sin an abomination.

Man calls sin a blunder,
God calls sin blindness.

Man calls sin a chance,
God calls it a choice.

Man calls sin a defect,
God calls it a disease.

Man calls sin an error,
God calls sin an enmity.

Man calls sin a fascination,
God calls it fatality.

Man calls sin infirmity,
God calls it iniquity.

Man calls sin a luxury,
God calls it lawlessness.

Man calls sin a trifle,
God calls it a tragedy.

Man calls sin a mistake,
God calls it madness.

Man calls sin a weakness
God calls it willfulness.

Friend, brother, sister—we must look at sin the way God does. We try to whitewash it, justify it and minimize it. God sees it as so terrible that He sent His Son to die a cruel death on the cross and has a place reserved in hell for those who refuse to repent of it. It cost Adam and Eve their place in the Garden of Eden; it cost Nadab and Abihu their lives (Leviticus 10:1-3); it cost Korah his life (Numbers). It cost the children of Israel their place in the Promised Land, and it will cost us eternal damnation (Romans 6:23).

I thank God constantly for giving us Jesus and for giving us a chance to be saved. I stand amazed every time I consider the cross, and to what extent He was willing to go to secure my salvation. I stand amazed that so many are complacent about eternity, about sin and what it does to us individually, to our families, to our nation and to the church. I am troubled that so often I like to flirt with it in my own life and how I seemingly do not care what my Heavenly Father thinks about the same. As Paul in Romans 7, I struggle with sin daily—and those who are Christians can understand what Paul says there.

Brethren, it is time that we get serious about sin once again. Let us remove this out of our lives by faith and determination.