Be Sure Your Sins Will Find You Out

“Be sure your sin will find you out.” Numbers 32:23 KJV

Most people would like to think that those sins we have committed in the past are in the past to stay. Yet we read quite often in the paper about someone who escaped justice twenty years ago who is now found living a respectable life believing the consequences of their sin is behind them. Still the consequences catch up and the illusion that our past doesn’t matter is shattered. While the confessed sin is forgiven with God, the human authorities might take a different opinion.

In Genesis 38 Judah is found in just such a position. First he married a Canaanite woman which was contrary to the will of God. By her he had three sons and for the first he arranged a Canaanite marriage. The first son died childless and so she was given to the second son who sinned and was slain by God. In fear for his third son’s life Judah withholds him from marriage to the same woman which was contrary to law and custom. In the meantime Judah goes to visit a harlot who conceives by him. It is revealed that the harlot is really his son’s wife who was seeking her legal security. When Judah finds that she is pregnant he calls for her to be executed for playing the harlot. How is she saved? She has the token Judah gave her in payment for her services. He is exposed. His sin has found him out. It is a picture for us that with God nothing is hidden. If we don’t deal with our sins before God in this life, be sure our sins will find us out.

Dear Father, Thank You for the cross of Christ where our sins can be forgiven and forgotten by You forever. Help me to walk honestly with You regarding the sins of my daily life that I may have continued close fellowship with You. Amen.

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