Semper Ubi Sub Ubi

Aiming Accurately at Sin

Ouch. RC Sproul, Jr, hits it on the head in his blog:

Too often Christians in rightly wanting to wage war with sin aim far and miss far. One of the great evils of these great evils is that they distract us from the great evils in ourselves. Flamboyant sin delights the devil because its very brightness blinds us to our own more humdrum sins. It is a good thing to be aghast at the great sins of the world. We ought never to become jaded to any sin. We must see it for what it is, an affront to God, and an assault on His dignity. The problem of sodomy isn’t that it turns our stomachs or makes our children ask embarrassing questions, but that it is a vile stench in the nostrils of God. It is a good thing to pray that God would do great things to stop this wickedness, to pray that His grace and His wrath would be poured out.

But it is a better thing, if you’ll pardon the piety, that we pray and labor to eradicate that sin which is closest to us, which resides within our own hearts.

Well, sometimes someone just has to speak it clearly and truthfully. Sproul says what we all ought to hear and pay some close attention to.