Friday Reading: Romans 6:8-11
Key Verse: Romans 6:11
11 Likewise count yourselves also to be truly dead to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Devotion:
If we trust Christ we need to trust Him for everything that He has promised us. It is not just a passing thing that He has done so that all sins in the past can be covered. His death was the perfect sacrifice that God required to pay for our sins. What love He showed by laying His own life down for that one cause – just so that we would not be found guilty for the things that we know we have done wrong! When we believe that that is exactly what He has done we then have to look at a few more things; first and foremost being that He rose again from that tomb so that Satan may be defeated forever and not just at that time.
But it is not just all about His death and resurrection but about our lives because He has done this for us. When we trust Him as our Saviour we are in effect laying down our mortal sinful lives and gaining eternal life in its stead. No we don’t have to physically die at that point otherwise we would not be able to tell other of the great news! We die spiritually to the world. The world no longer has dominion over us because He has released us from its mortal grip. If that is so then shouldn’t we act like we have been released from the grip of a sinful life? Should we not turn our backs on our sinful ways and turn towards the life that He has given us?
So many people forget that when we do trust Christ we are no longer constrained by the sinful world either. Christ rose again so that we could rise from our death to the sinful world and live for Him. Because Christ has given us a new life we do not have to live in our old lives. Why should we have to continue to put up with the sin in our lives when we have been set free from it? Why should we turn back to our sinful ways when we have so much ahead of us? The answer is that we don’t have to... It is our choice and we have to think about what we do. Christ chose to rise from the grave to show us that it is possible to defeat sin through Him. He has done it already so let Him guide you through your minefield too.
Points to Ponder:
How often do you turn back to your life before you knew Christ?
Are you choosing Christ or the world?
