Come, Let Us Adore Him: A Daily Advent Devotional

by Paul David Tripp

Let me define the brokenness of sin, which every human being shares, with five words: separation, inability, delusion, judgment, hopelessness. First, because of sin we exist in a from-birth state of separation from God, for whose glory we were created and in whose fellowship we were meant to live. Separation from God robs us of the core reason for our existence. Sin also renders us unable. It makes it impossible for us to think as we were made to think, to desire what we were created to desire, to speak as we were designed to speak, and to behave as God intended us to behave. How sad is it to be a human being, but not be able to live as you were created to live! Because sin blinds, it also leaves us in a constant state of delusion. We think we know ourselves well, but we don’t. We assess that we are more righteous than we actually are, and because we do, we don’t seek the help that we desperately need.