Those who belong to Christ Jesus have
nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and
crucified them there. Since we are living by the Spirit, let us follow
the Spirit’s leading in every part of our lives.
How do you deal
with your troubles, your wrong choices or your issues? By believing what God says about us after He
saved us, we will think and act differently.
But it is a choice to apply what God says to our lives. To act forgiven, we have to think and believe
we are forgiven. To live full of love,
we have to believe that God loves us and that His loves matters.
Choosing to crucify
your issues and live by the spirit is not an easy task. The verse above reminds us that to live
forgiven and as children of God we will make a conscious effort to nail our sin
to the cross. That is to put our
shortcomings in the past.
To crucify is to
kill. To put something to the side is to
nail it to something where it will stay put.
Our flesh has endless passions and desires that go totally against God’s
best for us. That is why we have to set
them aside.
I’d like to ask us
if we really want to live in the freedom that God provides, or would we rather
stay tied up and bound to our issues? By
choosing to live by the Spirit of God, we will do what God leads us to do. We will make wrong choices at times, but we
will strive to take a higher road, to do things right and to set sin, pride and
troubles aside.
God will help us
win those battles as we deal honestly with our sin. It is not easy to crucify our passions and
desires, but it is always right. To
follow the Spirit is to find peace and strength and help to get through the
battles of life.
I heard a quote the
other day that has stuck in my mind:
Better to aim high and fall a bit short
than to aim very low and hit it.
We aim
high by being honest and dealing with our sin.
To aim low is to sweep things under the proverbial rug and just live on
like none of our sin matters. But they
do. We can win. It is time to aim higher and see how God
gives us victory in life.
So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide
your lives. Then you won’t be doing what your sinful nature craves.
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