This morning I was getting coffee with a friend and we were talking about sin! It is so weird because it is something that is a part of our DNA. We can’t get rid of it! But we think that by our own efforts we can overcome! What! If this was true we would not need Christ!
We came to the conclusion that pride lets us think that we have, or can overcome sin. Paul reminds us in Romans 7 that the best of us will always fight sin! It’s about time we do what we know we need to. We need to surrender, humble confess to God our need for him and rely on him! Giving him the praise and going to him daily asking for his perspective, strength and perseverance.
He's waiting for us to be more than conquerors! It's time for us to surrender to the only one who can give us victory!
Romans 8:33-38 (Phillips NT)
8:33 Who would dare to accuse us, whom God has chosen? The judge himself has declared us free from sin. Who is in a position to condemn? Only Christ, and Christ died for us, Christ rose for us, Christ reigns in power for us, Christ prays for us! 3435 Can anything separate us from the love of Christ? Can trouble, pain or persecution? Can lack of clothes and food, danger to life and limb, the threat of force of arms? Indeed some of us know the truth of the ancient text: 'For your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter'. 37 No, in all these things we win an overwhelming victory through him who has proved his love for us.
38 I have become absolutely convinced that neither death nor life, neither messenger of Heaven nor monarch of earth, neither what happens today nor what may happen tomorrow, neither a power from on high nor a power from below, nor anything else in God's whole world has any power to separate us from the love of God in Jesus Christ our Lord!
Good word, can't argue with anything. The joys of this life
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