Alive To God In Christ Jesus
What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may
increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it
any longer? Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus
were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism
into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the
glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
For if
we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be
united with him in a resurrection like his. For we know that
our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done
away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— because anyone who has died
has been set free from sin.
Now if
we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know
that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no
longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all;
but the life he lives, he lives to God.
In the
same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil
desires. Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of
wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought
from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of
righteousness. For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not
under the law, but under grace.
Romans 6:1-14
Sin is
not always easy to spot. Something that feels right must be right, but that is
not always the case. Sin can be downright appealing.
If we
truly grasped the wonder of God’s loved for us, we would spend our days trying
to fathom and share, not exploit, His grace.
God does not save us by grace so that we may live in disgrace.
Our Daily Bread –