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John 5:14- Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, "See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you." Jesus after seeing the person He healed in the temple where he currently present as well, gives a very important command to a person who received mercy from Him and followed with a warning. In God’s sovereignty, He always have a choose to whom He wants to give mercy and grace and this disabled man is one of them. (Read the whole story in John 5:1-17.) We are blessed enough to know that even anyone who do not have direct relationship or even faith in Jesus can be healed as He found pleasing to Him to grant mercy. But He wants these recipients of mercy to walk in His righteousness. He wants them not to sin no more. Though we are sinner by nature, with obedience and submission to God and with the help of The Holy Spirit, we will be able to overcome sin, by wearing the full Armour of God Ephesians 6:10-20. But Jesus warns...

“Why should any living person complain when punished for his sins? נ(Nun) Let us carefully examine our ways, and let us return to the Lord. Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven” - Lamentations 3:39-42. When staring in a beautifully painted wall, we may get amazed to its outstanding beauty at the first look. But staring to it for some time, we start looking for the defects, a hole, paint patches, dirt, etc. The tendency of human mind is to always try to find out of what makes a perfect imperfect. It seems that there is no difference in our relationship with our God, we tend to complain on His alleged imperfections to us especially when we feel punished by our committed sin. We assume that God is unfair as if it is Him who caused these pains to us. We are acknowledging our sin against Him, thus we repent, but we do not want to be punished. This is not a true repentance then, it is just admittance. Though God accepted us wholeheartedly, we still have to bear the conseq...