Time with the Lord: This morning my devotion took me to Romans 6
in the Mirror bible. 6:12 you are
under no obligation to sin; it has no further rights to dominate your dead
declared body. Therefore let it not entice you to obey its lusts. (Your union
with his death broke the association with sin [Col 3:3].)
You hear people say ……
dead men have no rights. Todd
White says. “When you signed up for this
you signed up to die.” Two very powerful statements. In the above passage Holy spirit makes a statement. “You are under no obligation to sin.” So why is
that so hard sometimes? This week I
felt obligated to sin. I received an email
last week that was very hurtful and damaging to my heart. Emails can be very hard to understand. What I mean is ….. We try to read it in the
tone we think the other person is writing it.
Most of the time we are wrong. It
boils down to “pain is inevitable suffering is optional.” Pain is going to happen. People say mean things that will hurt
you. It can’t be helped. How we respond can be helped. For me,
sometimes I respond to other people the way I want to respond to the
person that hurt me. (Not good). When I said I chose to sin I did. I stayed angry and in my heart I wanted to be
vengeful. (My wife says I have a mean
streak in me, not sure where that comes from)
The suffering I was walking in was making it hard to do anything. I had lost my focus. Then came Wednesday morning. Sitting on the couch just being quite at
5:00 in the morning. I asked the Lord
what to do. The problem with the
question is I had not even thought two words of the question when I hear “let
it go” and there was no mistake it was Holy Spirit. Can I say I was not very happy about
that! I was pissed! Unfortunately there is no arguing with the
one who is always right. You can try
but it just doesn’t work. Now my heart
is good and I am back to where I was before the email.
Struggling with sin is really annoying. I knew what I was doing was wrong, but I
could not or chose not to do anything about it. The truth is … many times when we are
walking in something that is unrighteous, it takes a word from the Lord to turn
us back in the righteous direction.
6:13 Do not let the
members of your body lie around loose and unguarded in the vicinity of
unrighteousness, where sin can seize it and use it as a destructive weapon
against you; rather place yourself in 1readiness unto God, like someone
resurrected from the dead, present your whole person as a weapon of
righteousness, (Thus you are reinforcing God’s grace claim on mankind in
Christ; 1paristemi, to place in readiness in the vicinity of). 6:14 Sin
was your master while the law was your measure; now grace rules. (The law
revealed your slavery to sin, now grace reveals your freedom from it.)
Be Sons today!
