Gmail - August 26, 2009 - God Says You Are Forgiven - Daily Devotional - llackey08@gmail.com

Gmail - August 26, 2009 - God Says You Are Forgiven - Daily Devotional - llackey08@gmail.com

What a timely devotion! This morning I was reading in Romans - 6: 11In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. 14For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
Slaves to Righteousness 15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 16Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted. 18You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.



And Romans 7:14-25 Romans 7:14-25 (New International Version)

14We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[a] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

21So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22For in my inner being I delight in God's law; 23but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. 24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.


We have been set free from sin! I belong to Jesus - Grace is how I ought to live - If God forgives my sin through Jesus, then who am I to hold on to it? Why do I continually beat myself up? I'm allowing Satan a place in my heart - The good I want to do, I don't do. Instead I do what I don't want to do. Nothing good lives in me, I am sinful, therefore it is God/Jesus' grace that needs to live in me. When I allow too much negativity in me, I push the Spirit out. he is a gentleman, and just like he wont demand a place in anyone's life, he wont demand that he sin on the throne of my life! He just sits off to the side, and says, I love you, let's talk when you are ready!

This was freeing today. Thank you Jesus for forgiving me, I desire to have room for your grace and your grace alone. I no longer want to hold on to bitterness.