- What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Romans 6:1-2 – While a true teaching, Paul did drop a teaching that he knew could sadly be twisted to suit our fleshly desires. Paul taught us that as sin increased in our life, so did the grace of God being shown to us in our life. The idea was that we would never sin too much that God’s grace couldn’t cover it. Yet the twist on this teaching is what Paul addressed in our verses above. If grace abounds in our life when we sin, shouldn’t we sin all the more so God’s grace can be more in our life? To even ask a question like that though shows a lack of understanding why we choose to not sin when following Jesus. We know that our good works don’t earn us salvation, so the stopping of sinning isn’t made to somehow earn us our rightness with God. So why do we cut out the sin? Because the God we are in a relationship with hates sin and calls us away from it. The God who loves you and that you love can’t stand sin in our life, and because we desire closeness within this relationship with God we cut the things that distance us from Him. Our choice to put to death the sin in our life isn’t to earn us a relationship with God and isn’t to make us right with God, but it is our way of demonstrating we love God and desire close communion with Him. If Jesus died for our sin, how would us living the life He gave us for that sin demonstrate any gratitude for His sacrifice? Today you are not needing to earn a right standing with God for Jesus took care of that for you. Yet walking after sin makes it impossible to walk after the Lord. Put sin to death so you can live for the God you died for you. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 3429
- For one who has died has been set free from sin. Romans 6:7 – This chapter helps us see the choice we have in life. The choice of who is going to be our master, sin or God. What’s so amazing is that now through Jesus we can have this choice and we don’t have to be slaves to sin any longer. It’s a choice though, and you have to make that choice. You can choose today to continue letting sin lead you. Letting it tell you how to think, feel, react, dream, and relate. That choice to let sin lead looks like any other choice that’s not choosing to lean fully into Jesus today. Either lean fully into the path laid out for you by Jesus or sin’s path. I urge you choose the path that leads to joy and life. That path is available, take it. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1054
- I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. Romans 6:19 – Paul understood that the term “slave” was a loaded term, even in the day he wrote this letter, but in human language that was the best way to describe the concept Paul was teaching. Paul implies a look back for them at how they once served sinfulness. To remember how they gave themselves willing and consistently over to sinful things. It was on their minds, it was in their plans, it was what their life revolved around. Sin, impurity, and lawlessness led to more of the same being created and was what their hearts were after as “slaves” to unrighteousness. Now though, as followers of God, “slaves” to a new master, we are to give ourselves to this new master like we did with our old one. We are to have God’s righteous work on our mind, our plans should be about God and His glory, and our life should revolve around our new master. Allegiance needs to shift because ownership has shifted. We are no longer slaves to sin and the enemy, we have been redeemed by Jesus. Under this new lordship, has our actions began to agree with this new allegiance? Meaning has what we are giving ourselves to changed or are we still giving ourselves to sin like we used to? As now followers of Jesus, we are called to make our lives about Jesus like we used to make our lives about our sin. As passionate about sin as we were, that’s how passionate for God we are called to be. Let’s give Jesus the sort of devotion He deserves from our story. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2415
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