Why do We Sin?

“Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.” (Psalm 51:5)

King David committed a terrible sin with the wife of one his bravest and trusted soldiers. When David discovered that she was with child as a result of their sin, he had it arranged for that soldier to be killed in battle and for the woman to be his wife. One sin will never cover up another sin.

David did not become a sinner as a result of those sins. He committed those sins because he was a sinner. He acknowledged in his prayer of confession in the fifty-first Psalm that he was a sinner even from the time of his conception in his mother’s womb. The same is true for you and me.

The Bible says, “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.” (Romans 5:12) From the time Adam and Eve yielded to Satan and committed their sin in the Garden of Eden, every descendant of Adam and Eve have come into the world with the sin nature. That is why we sin, and the reason the Bible is truthful when it says that, “we have all sinned and come short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23) That is why we need a Savior. That’s why God provided His Son to be our Savior.

I encourage you to receive Him by faith to be your Savior.