So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. (ESV)
Jesus has set me
free from both the penalty of sin, which is death, and from the burden of its
guilt. The choice to walk in the freedom
is entirely mine.
In what can only
be described as moments of insanity, I choose to live my life as a slave to
fear, stress, anger, worry, guilt, greed, and the very sin nature from which
Jesus has set me free. This truly makes
no sense. After the doctor removed the
cast, would I choose to walk with crutches?
Would I continue to give the bank money after my mortgage had been
paid? Of course there are things in our
lives that tempt us to fear, stress, and all the other things that have bound
us, but we simply do not have to yield to them.
Satan wants us to believe that we must wrestle with this or that, that
we should go ahead and give in to a certain behavior. Jesus stands with His hands spread before us
and reminds us it does not have to be that way.
Jesus has set you
free from both the penalty of sin, which is death, and from the burden of its
guilt. The choice to walk in the freedom
is entirely yours.
Jesus, it is so
easy for me to revert to old ways of living.
Help me to walk in the power of the freed life You have given me. Amen.
Copyright © 2014 by Steven R. Perkins
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