Romans 8 2 ….the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.
The Word can have a powerful and eternal effect on your life. It can change your destiny and set you on a course of freedom that you can not achieve on your own accord.
Romans 8 is one of the most powerful passages in the Bible…..and it is one that we desperately need to read again and again and again until it seeks in to take root in our hearts.
Paul reminds us that we are “without excuse” and the scriptures tell us that we will stand before the throne of God and give account for our lives. We will, in fact, appear before the judgement seat of Christ (2 Corinthians 5:10).
It is at that moment that we will either defend our actions or be judged under the Spirit of Life….that we will live under the law of sin and death or under law of the Spirit of Life.
I can remember at Northern Colorado I was knocked down on a kickoff by a sidewinding block from a linebacker. In my mind, I had recovered well and gotten back to the ball to make the tackle. That Sunday night, I got to see it from the camera’s view up top…..again and again and again as the coach rewinded and played it in front of 90 players. I was called out for what I had done and stood in the spotlight as we all watched my failure.
None of us thinks that what we have done or who we have been or how we have acted is “as bad” as how it truly looks from camera’s above. Much like my perspective, my play on the field looked much worse than what I had perceived.
And so it will be with our lives.
Our actions.
Our attitudes.
Our thoughts.
Our body language.
The tone of our voices.
And then we must consider the times when we are utterly rebellious and prideful.
God has it all on record.
I have good news. We don’t need to strive and work and judge any more. We don’t need to clean up our act. We need to walk under the freedom of a new law….the law of the Spirit of Life.
God promises to set us free. He promises to NOT put us under condemnation or shame or failure.
He promises not to hold us under the defeat that we will surely experience in our own flesh and on our own accord and by our own actions.
And He promises that IF we live under the Spirit and start allowing Him to fill us and redeem us….that He will clean up some of our “stuff” that we can’t seem to get away from……
I have made a point to not only memorize this:
Romans 8 1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man, 4 in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.
But to memorize all of Romans 8. I want God to plant it in my soul and have it take root. That He might live out His call on my life from above and change my entire nature.
I have played this song before…..but I am reminded EVERY time I play it of the freedom that is so generously given to me—and to all of us.
Merry Christmas. May the Lord begin to totally refine and even redefine who you are. May you walk in the law of the Spirit of Life and rejoice in the freedom that comes from being “set free”….not just from the world…..but from yourself.
Your Promise Still Stands
Great Is Your Faithfulness
I’m Still In Your Hands
This Is My Confidence
You’ve Never Failed Me Yet
In The Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
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