I hope you all had a wonderful week. But perhaps your week wasn’t as amazing as you thought. Well that’s alright, all you need is just a little bit of encouragement to keep your spirits up. And luckily, I have just the words to help you out.
Have you ever felt like you didn’t have control in your own life? Well that’s everyone to a point, but have you felt like you were being controlled to do the wrong things? That is called, being a slave to Sin.
Now what does being a slave to Sin means? Well, Romans Chapter 6 talks greatly about that, you should give it a read for the full answer. Simply put, it means that no matter how good you are as a person, and no matter how much good you can do, your true intentions aren’t as good as you thought. Because sin is still in control.
We can try to do things with good intentions, but it often falls into what we can get out of it. “What will this do for me!?” That alone is bad enough, but when you start trying to justify your actions for your selfish intentions… then that just proves the point, the point being that Sin is in control.
Well, there’s a saying that says, “We all fall short of the Glory of God.” And make no mistakes, that is very true. But as Christians, we don’t have to keep falling short on the Glory of God.
We will still Sin and makes mistakes within our lives, but because we are Alive in Christ, we have the connection with God, and he will always gives us his Glory. It like when we are trying to ride a bike, and of course we fall.
In Sin, we can choose not to get back up and quit, but if we try again, then we are basically on our own to figure out what to do next. But in the Glory of God, we can also choose not to get back up and quit, but if we try to get back up again, we’re not doing it alone. He’s gently holding our hand, telling us that “It’s alright, you’re ok. Let’s get up and try again.”
If you don’t want to get up now, then that’s okay. Sometimes we need a moment to take a moment to stop, and remember what we are doing, so that’s okay. But it’s not okay to stay down there for too long, and when you are ready to get up, are you going to get up on your own, or will you have someone there to help you, every step of the way.
Remember to walk FOLLOWING in the Lord, and not BRING HIM along with you.