WHAT IS CONVICTION OF SIN?
By Ernest O'Neill
WHAT IS CONVICTION OF SIN?
by Rev. Ernest O'Neill
But do you know what conviction of sin is? It's you saying, "My hand is so sore, my hand is so sore, I hope next day they do something that will make my hand feel better." But there's a dear Savior who is saying, "Your hand is sore because you're beating me with it, you're beating me with it. That's why it's sore." So I wonder, could it be that we have a tendency to think of a thing like conviction of sin as if it's some wrong psychological experience through which we're passing? When it is simply your dear Father witnessing to you in a way that you can understand that you're killing his Son. And that the soreness in your hand is nothing compared with the welts that you're leaving on his heart. But I think at times you know we have a tendency to think of this as if it's some reforming psychological experience that we're passing through. And so somebody should come along next week and smooth it over for us.
Well, it's really the Son of God saying to you, these things that are in your life are killing me. They are the things that destroyed me on Calvary and they're killing me at this moment, this sin that is in your life. It isn't, loved ones, just some irritating depression that you're feeling or some wrong guilt, it isn't. There is false guilt, but guilt about things that you know God does not want you to do -- that is the human reflection of the divine pain in God's heart. When you're complaining and crying about the pain in your hand, realize that there is a Savior at the other end of things that is not complaining but is bleeding from your striking him.