majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of
him in Galatians 5:24-26,
"Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature
with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us
keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking
and envying each other."
There are a couple of thoughts that strike me about this passage. The
first is that which marks us as a "new creation", 2 Corinthians 5:17.
Paul says that those of us who have embraced Jesus Christ in faith
have put to death, "crucified", the sinful nature. By that I assume
Paul is saying that the sinful nature no longer has mastery over us.
We need not serve sin any longer, we have been freed from our slavery
to our sin nature to serve another.
My other thought is that in our freedom to serve Jesus Christ, our
freedom is really freedom. Paul encourages us to "keep in step with
the Spirit". The obvious reason we are encouraged to do so is that our
freedom includes the option to not do so. Here is an amazing thing...
we are really free to express ourselves! We are not robots, we are not
automatically programmed to obey. Obedience is a choice. Without the
choice to obey God, we would not have a context within which we could
truly worship him. True worship and true love can only be expressed in
the context of freedom of choice to do so.
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share
your thoughts of worship with us from your Bible reading today. We'd
love to hear from you!
Trevor Fisk
trevor.fisk@gmail.com
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