Fantastic Friday #310- Spin

Spin

1 Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save,
nor his ear too dull to hear.
2 But your iniquities have separated
you from your God;
your sins have hidden his face from you,
so that he will not hear.
3 For your hands are stained with blood,
your fingers with guilt.
Your lips have spoken falsely,
and your tongue mutters wicked things.
4 No one calls for justice;
no one pleads a case with integrity.
They rely on empty arguments, they utter lies;
they conceive trouble and give birth to evil.
5 They hatch the eggs of vipers
and spin a spider’s web.
Whoever eats their eggs will die,
and when one is broken, an adder is hatched.
6 Their cobwebs are useless for clothing;
they cannot cover themselves with what they make.
Their deeds are evil deeds,
and acts of violence are in their hands.
7 Their feet rush into sin;
they are swift to shed innocent blood.
They pursue evil schemes;
acts of violence mark their ways.
8 The way of peace they do not know;
there is no justice in their paths.
They have turned them into crooked roads;
no one who walks along them will know peace. Isaiah 59:1-8

No, you didn't read incorrectly, I said spin not sin. It is interesting how closely the words are related, one has just one more letter than the other. Do you sit back and see how some people can spin things in their favor, even if it does look wrong. Sometimes people can spin something in so many directions that they make it sound right and correct. That is the thing with sin, you can try to spin it in many different ways, but in the end it is still sin. If you think about the spider who spins his web, that is the just like the enemy trying to trap us in sin with his spinning of evil things to make them look good. The nice thing about this passage in the Old Testament, it shows there is hope to those who can avoid the spin.

21 “As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit, who is on you, will not depart from you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will always be on your lips, on the lips of your children and on the lips of their descendants—from this time on and forever,” says the LORD. Isaiah 59:21

While we may not live in Old Testament times like in this Isaiah passage, we can still avoid the spin and rely on our Lord's spirit, because He is always here.

Have a great weekend.