Once a little boy and his mother were talking one Sunday morning. We have yet to fully comprehend just how bad the problem of sin is in our lives. Sin is a pervasive problem in our lives. The Bible says that you and I have a desperate need for forgiveness. The problem of sin so affects our lives and our souls that without forgiveness, we have no hope of fellowship with God.
Alienation is the result of sin in our lives, and it dominates our existence.
We are alienated from God, we are alienated from others, and we are even alienated from ourselves. Scripture teaches that the reason Christ came to earth was to pay the penalty for our sin with or through His death on the cross and thereby to deal with the alienation we all experience in this life. The chasm that exists between us and God because of our sin can be breached in Christ. The Bible says that Christ paid the debt we owed to God, when He laid down His life and died on the cross for us. Through His shed blood, He took the debt we owed, and He paid it in full, clearing the balance on our ledger with God.