Verses: Romans 7 : 7 - 13
My thoughts about the verses:
The commandments help point out our sinful nature. The original purpose of the laws was to help us keep close to God. By following these basic commandments we are able to stay within close relationship with God. The Law is good. Yet, what happens because we know the law we know when we sin. When we sin we spiritually die. The law points out the worse parts of our human nature. The part that wants to rebel against God.
Then the question is if the Law is Good how did it become a tool to lead to our spiritual death? It isn't the Law that makes us sin it is our human nature that leads us down the path of sin. To understand this you must first take into consideration that we are convicted by the law. The law shows us the things which are bad. We should desire to do well. Yet, our human nature convinces us to do badly. Therefor our relationship with God is compromised.
The fight we live each day is to not stray from the Laws that were established. Yet, this is a battle that we often fail. Our relationship with God is affected by our turning away from the Laws that were meant to guide us to God. We cannot restore our relationship with God by doing deeds. The restoration takes place when we open our hearts to allow God to work in our souls. Then and only then are we able to regain our spiritual life. If we continue rebelling against God and desiring things that are not of God we will never regain spiritual life. Those that follow their own ways are actually dead spiritually because they have chosen Earthly things over being in relationship with God.
I know that each one of us have experienced someone that we loved dying physically. We experience a time of denial, which soon turns to sadness. Overtime through the healing process we are able to accept that death and continue on with life. Many of us have that one special person that we wish was still alive. It may have been years since they passed yet different sounds or smells rush their memories back to us. We are faced with being alone.
One of the hardest things to deal with is if someone committed suicide. There is this feeling that the survivors have of guilt. What ifs flow through their minds. They question could they have stopped this from happening? What did they do wrong? Yet, in the end the person made their own decision. They chose to take their life because of their inability to handle life's situations.
When we choose to not obey God we are choosing our own death. We are choosing the things of the Earth over a relationship with God. God mourns these losses just as much as someone does when their loved one commits suicide. See it is a chose not to be with God. It is a battle that was exposed by the law. Yet, the victory came with the death of Jesus. Accepting that in our hearts and believing truly with our souls give us new life. We need to understand that what God wants is to have a relationship with us.
Prayer:
Dear God we thank you for everything that you have done for us. We thank you for giving us the law so that we can see our faults. More importantly we thank you for giving us Jesus. Jesus we thank you for going to the cross to carry our sins to the grave. Holy Spirit we ask you to come into our hearts to help us fight the good fight. In the Name of the Holy Trinity we pray. Amen
Questions:
Have you asked God into your heart? Have you realized that the chose to follow God is in your own hands? Are you willing to walk in the light of the Lord? Have you been convicted by the law and ready to ask for the cleansing that comes through Jesus?
My thoughts about the verses:
The commandments help point out our sinful nature. The original purpose of the laws was to help us keep close to God. By following these basic commandments we are able to stay within close relationship with God. The Law is good. Yet, what happens because we know the law we know when we sin. When we sin we spiritually die. The law points out the worse parts of our human nature. The part that wants to rebel against God.
Then the question is if the Law is Good how did it become a tool to lead to our spiritual death? It isn't the Law that makes us sin it is our human nature that leads us down the path of sin. To understand this you must first take into consideration that we are convicted by the law. The law shows us the things which are bad. We should desire to do well. Yet, our human nature convinces us to do badly. Therefor our relationship with God is compromised.
The fight we live each day is to not stray from the Laws that were established. Yet, this is a battle that we often fail. Our relationship with God is affected by our turning away from the Laws that were meant to guide us to God. We cannot restore our relationship with God by doing deeds. The restoration takes place when we open our hearts to allow God to work in our souls. Then and only then are we able to regain our spiritual life. If we continue rebelling against God and desiring things that are not of God we will never regain spiritual life. Those that follow their own ways are actually dead spiritually because they have chosen Earthly things over being in relationship with God.
I know that each one of us have experienced someone that we loved dying physically. We experience a time of denial, which soon turns to sadness. Overtime through the healing process we are able to accept that death and continue on with life. Many of us have that one special person that we wish was still alive. It may have been years since they passed yet different sounds or smells rush their memories back to us. We are faced with being alone.
One of the hardest things to deal with is if someone committed suicide. There is this feeling that the survivors have of guilt. What ifs flow through their minds. They question could they have stopped this from happening? What did they do wrong? Yet, in the end the person made their own decision. They chose to take their life because of their inability to handle life's situations.
When we choose to not obey God we are choosing our own death. We are choosing the things of the Earth over a relationship with God. God mourns these losses just as much as someone does when their loved one commits suicide. See it is a chose not to be with God. It is a battle that was exposed by the law. Yet, the victory came with the death of Jesus. Accepting that in our hearts and believing truly with our souls give us new life. We need to understand that what God wants is to have a relationship with us.
Prayer:
Dear God we thank you for everything that you have done for us. We thank you for giving us the law so that we can see our faults. More importantly we thank you for giving us Jesus. Jesus we thank you for going to the cross to carry our sins to the grave. Holy Spirit we ask you to come into our hearts to help us fight the good fight. In the Name of the Holy Trinity we pray. Amen
Questions:
Have you asked God into your heart? Have you realized that the chose to follow God is in your own hands? Are you willing to walk in the light of the Lord? Have you been convicted by the law and ready to ask for the cleansing that comes through Jesus?
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