Wednesday Reading: Romans 6 1-2
Key Verse: Romans 6 1
1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
Key Verse: Romans 6 1
1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
Devotion:
Do you have to put your hand into a fire to show that it is hot? When you have found out that it is hot, do you then have to keep putting your hand in every now and again to make sure? We need only to stand close enough to feel the heat rather than placing our hand into the flames to know that the fire is hot and that it continues to be hot. Once we know that fires are hot, we only have to see flames from a distance to know then where the heat is; we know then to avoid places where we see flames.
Do you have to put your hand into a fire to show that it is hot? When you have found out that it is hot, do you then have to keep putting your hand in every now and again to make sure? We need only to stand close enough to feel the heat rather than placing our hand into the flames to know that the fire is hot and that it continues to be hot. Once we know that fires are hot, we only have to see flames from a distance to know then where the heat is; we know then to avoid places where we see flames.
Why then should our lives be any different towards sin? Once we find out from God’s Word what sin is and what the penalty is for sin, why should we then go back there? We do not have to continually try a bit of sin out to find out if it is still sin. We do not have to get involved with it just to make sure. Just like a fire, the longer that we play with it, the more that we may think we have confidence in it and the more we then get involved with it… only to find out that it bites us when we are least expecting it!
We do not have to go for a bit of sin to make sure that we still will find forgiveness in Christ! We have His promise! Is that not good enough? Once we have found out how sin will affect our relationship with God, that alone should be enough to make sure that we steer clear of it for the rest of our lives. Yet we continue to break God’s laws in our lives because we are used to doing it. We have built up habits from the things that we have thought of in the past, that we then got involved with and now continue to do. We are not bound by these sins. We do have the choice to stop them… but do we have the will-power to stop?
God has given us the way that we can defeat sin so that we can spend our lives with Him. It does not mean that we can continue breaking the laws right up until we die, knowing that we are saved… we still have to answer to what we have not done!
Points to Ponder:
How often does something have to happen to you before you believe it?
How often do you have to break God’s laws before you see they are wrong?
How often does something have to happen to you before you believe it?
How often do you have to break God’s laws before you see they are wrong?