Prepare your defences
Sin in your life is not something that should be taken lightly. It is, plain and simple, a slap in the face of the Saviour who loves you. The saddest part is that most Christians believe that they cannot escape this sin that traps them in a lifestyle of guilt. The truth is that Christ died so that we could live in Him and not in sin.
Romans 6: 7-14
Because anyone who has died has been freed from sin.
Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.
The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. Do 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.
For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
Sin has a way of blinding us from the hope that we have found in God. We need to make a decision to remind ourselves constanty that we are saved by Christ and that sin has no hold on us! When we truely believe this we will approach sin differently. Our approach will not be of shame and defeat (which leads to submission to the temptation) but rather of faith and hope in a God who has already conquered sin!
Remember that you are under grace and all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to you through Christ Jesus (Matthew 28).
In order to grow spiritually we need to be courageous enough to stand up against the sin that holds us back and see it for what is really is. Our sinful thoughts and actions keep us from living a life of JOY in Jesus Christ
Remember Jeremiah 29: 11
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future”
Victory over sin allows us to move forward in our relationship with our loving Father. Knowing Jesus Christ is the key to joy, life and a new beginning.
