Daily Devotion (December 30, 2024)
Romans 6:12-14
11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13 And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
A definition of sin I learned a long time ago that still guides me today. This comes from “Child Evangelism.” We used some of their material at Camp JOY. “Sin is anything we say, do, or think that is displeasing to God.”
Have you accepted Christ as THE Savior of your life? If so, remember your sin has been paid for by Jesus. He has paid in full your debt to sin. Having accepted Christ into our lives leads us to live our lives for Him. We no longer have to worry about the past sin in our lives but to live our life for Jesus. We have died to sin. A dead person can no longer sin.
Paul exhorts the follower of Christ to remember; to live in the knowledge that what was in the past is in the past. Being dead to sin means being alive in Christ. The door to sin has been closed and now the door to God and His righteousness is open. As we grow in Christ, we have a greater desire to follow Christ and not Satan. There is a new relationship being built in our lives.
Pride! C. S. Lewis identifies pride as “the root of all other vices and the greatest obstacle to living the Christian life.” I love the oxymoron quote, “I take great pride in my humility.”
Paul writes in Philippians 2:5-7, “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men.” Today choose to walk in Christ and not the world.