Wednesday 7 May 2014

Do not offer your body to sin

ROmans 6:13 tells us that it is important to never offer the parts of my body to sin.  Therefore, anytime I am tempted tons in, I need to tell the part of my body that would be involved in that sin, "No sin, you cannot have my body".  It may be my hands, eyes, feet, mouth, etc., but I need to say no to sin, because I live in Christ and in Him I am a " new creation ".  To help with this I need to dedicate myself every day to God.  Another thing I can say when tempted is to remind myself that sin is not my master.  God is my Master.  "I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength."  And this is because each and every decision is exactly that - a choice.  I need to choose to do the right thing and allow God to provide me the strength to do that.  If I look at this as a bunch of decisions it may seem overwhelming, but when I focus on each decision one at a time, it becomes much more manageable.  In those decisions focus on saying, "Sin is not my master, and sin, you cannot have any part of my body".

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