Friday Reading: Romans 8:10-12
Key Verse: Romans 8:11
11 But if the Spirit of the One who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the One who raised up Christ from the dead shall also make your mortal bodies alive by His Spirit who dwells in you.
Devotion:
There are many things that we do not fully understand about Christ, about God and about the Holy Spirit but these things we can continue to seek out whilst we can. There is no harm in trying to further understand the ways of God because in learning such things we will learn more about Him and see more about our sinful ways. The more that we can identify about ourselves, the more likely we are to be able to steer clear of those ways because we will find out that they are the ways of the world and not God’s ways. When we accept Christ into our lives we accept His ways too and in doing so we should strive to walk in His ways.
When Christ died for us He gave us freedom from being compelled to walk in the ways of the world. In effect He allows us to die from this world as well so that we can be raised up by Him to walk in His ways. Yes we are still going to be here waiting for our time to go and be with Him but all that time can be spent doing things in a manner that Christ would approve of instead on earthly ways. Just like Christ was raised up, we too will be raised up because of what He has done for us in paying for our sin debt. When we live for Him we live with Him with the Spirit dwelling in our bodies. Our bodies are His temple and we no longer have to put up with our sinful ways.
We do have a choice and we can choose to do away with earthly ways. Yes it is going to be hard; impossible if we do not have Christ with us. But with Christ we no longer have to give in to sin because He has made us free from that sin. The more we live for Him and with Him, the more that we will frown upon the ways of the world and see the wickedness for what it is. Then we can look back and know that He has saved us from that life on sin – just because He loves us so!
Points to Ponder:
Are you tempted?
Do you have Christ on your side?
