Add Sin To Sin

¹“Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:” (Isaiah 30:1). Sinning on it's own causes us enough grief, but when we add sin to sin, that's when we get into real trouble. God does not say “woe to the rebellious children” full stop. It is not the act of rebellion on its own that gets us into real trouble. Rather, it's the fact that when we find ourselves in trouble, we don't look to God to help us out. That is how we add one sin to another. We may tell ourselves that we don't deserve God's help and we have to fix this on our own, but this is only stubborn pride that we don't need help, or else cowardice that we don't want to face God covered in muck and subject to His all seeing eye. God may be angry and disappointed with us, or He may not. But one thing for sure is that it breaks His heart to see us turn our backs on Him in rebellion and then keep them turned after we have begun to suffer because we don't want to face the truth. We can follow the example of the proverbial ostrich and stick our head in the ground and cover ourselves with a covering, but this doesn't make the danger go away but only increases our vulnerability to it. Whatever excuses or rationalizations or justifications we wrap ourselves in, the real detriment doesn't come from the nature of the covering, but the fact that we are wrapping ourselves in something other than the Spirit. When we actually turn and face God and take counsel from Him and allow Him to cover us with His spirit, then we are no longer doubling down and adding sin to sin. And as long as we keep ourselves wrapped up in God's spirit and His power, then we won't have the desire or inclination to carry on rebelling. It is so very easy to stack sin upon sin all day long. But if we are covered in the Holy Spirit, it is much harder to add sin to righteousness.