Ezekiel 14:7

Which separateth himself from Me.

Point of contact disturbed by sin

Dr. Cortland Meyers says that one of the electric bells in his home recently refused to ring. He failed to discover the cause. An electrician was sent for. After some time spent over it he found that right up under the bell, so insignificant as to be almost imperceptible, was a place where the point of contact was lost. It is often so with the Church. “Battery all right, machinery and wires all right, but the point of contact is defective”--disobedience, pride, covetousness have estranged the heart from God. (R. Venting.)

Sin’s power to separate man from God

A man never gets to the end of the distance that separates between him and the Father, if his face is turned away from God. Every moment the separation is increasing. Two lines start from each other at the acutest angle, are farther apart from each other the farther they are produced, until at last the one may be away up by the side of God’s throne, and the other away down in the deepest depths of hell. (A. Maclaren.)