Sunday 12 May 2013

Sunday Reading: Romans 14:7-9

Key Verse: Romans 14:9
9  For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.

Devotion:
One of the biggest changes that I saw in myself when I gave my life to Christ was that I no longer was as selfish as I used to be. I would do things because I wanted to do them and even made out that I was doing things for others when in reality I was doing it because it fulfilled a need within myself first of all. But when I began to see just how much Christ has done for me I began to change my attitude toward life in general.

When we are focus on ourselves then we will find out that all we can achieve is those things for ourselves and that is all. We will find that when we have achieved our goal it still leaves us empty because we still see others around us searching for their own needs. When we live for ourselves we will always find that we need more than we can gain and more than we find; it is all in vain.

We need to remember that we do belong to The Lord. It is Jesus Christ who laid down His life for our sakes; He has bought us with a great price, one that can never truly be repaid, but one that He gave so freely. When we live our lives we should live each day as if it were our first day and our last day to be with Christ; living each moment to the fullest extend for Him and not in spite of Him. Jesus paid that price for us so that we can know that we belong to Him and not to the world. It was a price that He was willing to pay and one that we must not take lightly.

God wants us to know that He allowed that price to be paid so that we would always belong to Him. He created us and has maintained this world so that we can continue to live on it with a freedom that is greater than anything we know. We may feel trapped by all manner of earthly things and may even be physically trapped, but our souls have a freedom that Christ has paid for and one that we will have forever. It is because of that freedom that I willingly go forward to live for others as well as for Christ now. He has shown me more love than I could imagine and I share that love with as many as I can, openly and fully.

Points to Ponder:
Who do you love?

Do you ever compare that to Christ’s love?