MY
DAILY COVENANT WITH GOD DEVOTIONAL
Devotion
for Thursday April 20, 2017
Topic:
Reckon Yourselves To Be Dead
Text:
Romans 6:8 – 11
Yesterday, we saw that one of the
implications of our baptism is that we are to die to sin and be alive unto
righteousness. Apostle Paul therefore, advised the Romans and we the present readers
by extension that we should reckon ourselves to be dead to sin. A dead man is
in a state of numbness and inactivity. The body does not do anything and thus
is not prone to sin. Such state of numbness makes it impossible to commit sin
because in that state it is emotionless without feelings.
What this means is that we should
regard our old sinful nature as dead and unresponsive to sin. If you strike a
match and place it on a dead body, he will not feel the heat because the body
is in numbness state. By considering ourselves dead to sin, Paul wants us to be
like Christ in dying to sin and living
to God; living a new life of holiness devoted to God's glory, in imitating
Christ's resurrection-life.
As people who are now identified with
Christ, we should distant ourselves from the kind of life we were used to
before we repented. We should no longer want to pursue our old plans, desires,
and goals. Those desires must be put to death (Col. 3:5, 6). We should begin to
live for the glory of God. This will be a battle between the flesh and the
spirit. However, if you are willing and obedient, God will grant you the
enabling grace through the power of the Holy Spirit who will help you become
all that Christ wants you to be. Your salvation should produce “A change not of
state and condition only, but of character and conduct. It leads a person to
live not unto himself, but unto Him who died for him and rose again” as posited
Family Bible Notes. Is it so in your life?
Food
for Thought:
What positive change can be seen in your conduct and character as a Christian?
Memory
verse:
Romans 6:2 – Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?
Prayer:
Lord God, help me to mortify my body so I can die to sin in Jesus name.
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