I am dead. What does dead mean? Here is a thought/understanding to consider what it means.
Dead in MY ability to “deal” with anything. Can you deal with sin? If so, why did Christ die? Jesus BORE and DEALT with our sin because of our complete impotency!
He did and He does. Did what?!? Does what?!?
He dealt with our sin and He deals with our sin.
So…when something is hounding me in thought, emotions; whether I “feel” like it’s within or without please don’t ask me to “deal” with it. Romans 7.
REMIND me to look to Jesus who DEALS with it all! Romans 8
The best words we could ever say are: “I can’t, He can!”
I have a friend/brother in Christ who says, “If I am not dependent on Christ, I’ll sin all the time!”
I am not afraid to tell the Lord what I feel.
But His response is to remind me that unless I look to Him for the provision (whatever it is), I’ll find myself wallowing in thoughts that are NOT from Him and I’ll be dominated by sin’s power. Then watch those behaviors follow according to sin’s power or Christ’s life. Yet I’ve found that sometimes there’s a time lapse between my trusting Christ to work through me versus the patterns I’ve held for a long time.
If we would feed one another Christ through reminders of the Truth, perhaps we’d witness more of His love and fruit.
There is only ONE provision for not being dominated by sin’s power as a Christian. JESUS CHRIST moment by moment through faith. Sometimes the feelings and the picture we see with our human eyes contradicts the absolute TRUTH of what He is in us.
This is when we hold to our faith in Him and quit looking at the things that are seen. More importantly, ask Him to take us out of Romans 7 (humans “trying” real hard to love, to do this, to do that) and get us into the reality of Romans 8 of Christ’s Spirit of life within and are dependence on HIM for ALL of life and godliness.
He reminded me today – so I thought I’d remind you.
In Christ,
Sue Gaither
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