Daily Word – Tuesday 19 December 2006

But now that you've found you don't have to listen to sin tell you what to do, and have discovered the delight of listening to God telling you, what a surprise! A whole, healed, put-together life right now, with more and more of life on the way! Work hard for sin your whole life and your pension is death. But God's gift is real life, eternal life, delivered by Jesus, our Master.  [Romans 6:22-23]

We can never permanently overcome sin with our flesh but only with the power of the Holy Spirit. Yes we may be able to suppress the ‘old man’ for short periods of time but true freedom is only available through the Blood of Jesus and His unending grace.

Sin kills us and not quickly or painlessly, but slowly, corrupting and corroding, beating and breaking, eating away at the very core of our being until we are left, ‘the walking dead’, all our hopes and dreams destroyed, and nothing but ashes at our feet.

The life that comes from Christ is not just a once off thing, but a continuous, lifelong supply of love and grace, always available, always powerful, and always able to deliver us no matter how deep the valley, how harsh the storm, or how far we may have fallen.

So let go and let Gods Grace transform you, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day!!!

Keep walking with Jesus,

Much love

Chrissy