Hey everybody, time for a coffee break with Christ.
Today's reading comes from Romans, chapter 6, verse 12.
The Bible says, do not let sin control the way you live, do not give in to sinful desires.
Very nice way of saying don't let sin reign in your body, which is subject to death.
Other translations may even say, something a little bit lengthier, saying don't let
sin control your life here on earth so that you do whatever your sinful self wants to do.
Basically, what it's saying though is, we have a choice to make.
We know sins are in our life, we all sin, we've all fallen short.
But the choice is, do we give in to our sinful nature?
Do we give in and do those things that we know we shouldn't?
Do we follow what everyone else in the world does?
Or, do we exercise some self control?
And control ourselves to do only what God wants us to do instead.
See, this is a choice that's been given by our Father.
The decision to follow Him or to give in to our sinful nature, is ours to pick.
By making that choice, we decide, are we going to follow Him or are we going to go to the depths of hell?
See, in picking Him, it's not always as easy as we like to think it is.
Sometimes we just can't do it alone.
So we have to ask Him for help in controlling these things, these thoughts, these actions,
these sins that we're called towards.
But nevertheless, He will help us overcome, we just have to lead in to Him.