Friday Reading: Romans 7:14-17
Key Verse: Romans 7:15
15 For that which I do, I know not. For what I desire, that I do not do; but what I hate, that I do.
Devotion:
Though we should never try to make excuses for what we get up to we must always realise that it is our sin nature that grabs hold of us and breaks us in so many ways. If we were to think back on all the things that we did wrong we should probably end up a bit of a wreck and require a whole lot of comforting to get us out of the depressed state we would end up in. Just trying to sit and think about things we have done wrong is enough to break us… so long as we know one thing in the beginning and that is God’s Word.
Without God’s Word we would never be able to know that we were doing things wrong and that we were sinning at all. But because we do have our bibles we can very quickly find out just how much sin we do have in our lives. That is where we can continue to celebrate the fact that Christ was willing to come down and be born as a human just so that He could take on the sin debt that we owe. God made it quite clear to Adam and Eve in the beginning that sin would lead to death and even after they had allowed their own desires to take control, God was still gave them a way out!
I praise God for the very fact that He was willing to do all of this just because He loves me. That Love that He has shown me not just over the last few years but over my whole life is something that I need to bring out in my life. I don’t want to acknowledge sin or lust but unless I do I cannot show others just how much we need to rid it from our lives. It is through the sin that we break…
And God has shown us and given us everything we need to know so that we are no longer bound by that sin. We no longer have to give in to it. We no longer have to break ourselves. We no longer have to go those sinful ways… But we do have to acknowledge the fact that we are still sinners and that we still need forgiveness for those sins that we have already done – it’s just that God has already given us the way through which they can be forgiven… we just need to accept that truth!
Points to Ponder:
Do you acknowledge your sin?
Do you bring your sin before God?