No Condemnation For Me.
After a conscious decision and several determined efforts, we can perfect the act of not condemning others. But I’ve found it somehow more difficult not to condemn ‘Me’.
I experience several temptations in-and-out of our control everyday…some I barely by-passed, others I fell to…some of my thought are best not seen by others…I rationalize with God before sowing some of my seeds…I’ve not been that faithful with praying for my ‘sheep’, and now 1 of them is seriously ill…volunteering my time to help others is not always as good as I state it….
I've tried everything and nothing helps. I feel like I'm at the end of my rope. Is there no one who can do anything for me? Isn't that the real question on everybody’s mind? The answer, thank God, is that Jesus Christ can and does. He acted to set things right in this life of contradictions where I/we want to serve God with all my/our heart and mind, but am/we’re pulled by the influence of sin to do something totally different – Romans 7 24-27.
And guess what? Despite the pulls…fallings…tempted-ness…living below public expectation…rationalizations…un-nice thoughts…sometimes ‘faithlessness’…, I Am Not Condemned! Romans 8 seals it for me. Verse 33 says: Who shall bring any charge against God's elect (ME!) when it is God Who justifies? That is, Who puts us in right relation to Himself? Who shall come forward and accuse or impeach those whom God has chosen? Will God, Who acquits us?
Definitely Not! His Love, Mercy and Grace avails for me ALWAYS.
What shall we say to all this? Are we to remain in sin in order that God's grace favour and mercy may multiply and overflow? Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer? – Rms 6: 1-2.
I might fall once in a while, but I wouldn’t live in it, and that is what makes the difference. My body falls at times, my mind wonders, but I never live in sin. I LIVE IN CHRIST.
Verses 1-2 say Therefore, there is now no condemnation, no adjudging guilty of wrong for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live and walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life which is in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has freed me from the law of sin and of death.
Love, Janmo!
I experience several temptations in-and-out of our control everyday…some I barely by-passed, others I fell to…some of my thought are best not seen by others…I rationalize with God before sowing some of my seeds…I’ve not been that faithful with praying for my ‘sheep’, and now 1 of them is seriously ill…volunteering my time to help others is not always as good as I state it….
I've tried everything and nothing helps. I feel like I'm at the end of my rope. Is there no one who can do anything for me? Isn't that the real question on everybody’s mind? The answer, thank God, is that Jesus Christ can and does. He acted to set things right in this life of contradictions where I/we want to serve God with all my/our heart and mind, but am/we’re pulled by the influence of sin to do something totally different – Romans 7 24-27.
And guess what? Despite the pulls…fallings…tempted-ness…living below public expectation…rationalizations…un-nice thoughts…sometimes ‘faithlessness’…, I Am Not Condemned! Romans 8 seals it for me. Verse 33 says: Who shall bring any charge against God's elect (ME!) when it is God Who justifies? That is, Who puts us in right relation to Himself? Who shall come forward and accuse or impeach those whom God has chosen? Will God, Who acquits us?
Definitely Not! His Love, Mercy and Grace avails for me ALWAYS.
What shall we say to all this? Are we to remain in sin in order that God's grace favour and mercy may multiply and overflow? Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer? – Rms 6: 1-2.
I might fall once in a while, but I wouldn’t live in it, and that is what makes the difference. My body falls at times, my mind wonders, but I never live in sin. I LIVE IN CHRIST.
Verses 1-2 say Therefore, there is now no condemnation, no adjudging guilty of wrong for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live and walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life which is in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has freed me from the law of sin and of death.
Love, Janmo!
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