The Bible says, “You are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness.”
Overindulgence of most things becomes sin. Consider often praying for self-control, and moderation in all things. These two prayers are not perfect when your habit is a stronghold, but they are perfect for many other things that lead back to ______.
#2 The Bible says that “The wages of sin is death.” Today if I overindulge in something I need to consider praying:
“Father, what Partially died, or began to die because of overindulging in ______.”
#3 My friend wrote regarding the above two verses:
“I think if we truly grasped this, no true believer would sin even one more time.”
I quote these verses constantly, but I barely grasp there meaning. Consider praying:
“Father, help me to stop my foolishness, please show me what You want me to do.”
My friend continues:
But these verses also tell us our attitude can NEVER be that “More sin is fine!”
God doesn’t TOLERATE sin, He FORBEARS sin. If we truly knew this from the inside out, we also wouldn’t tolerate sin. We wouldn’t tolerate “One more thought,” “One more indulgence”. (Gross!)
By no means!
We all want freedom. What does “freedom” mean? Especially in modern culture, the view of freedom is to be able to say, “I can do whatever I feel like.” But these verses show us that if this is the way we conduct ourselves, we then become slaves to our own passions & desires! Thinking we are so clever, thinking this is the path of freedom, we become enslaved – this is the experience of just about everyone with bad habits!
No – true freedom, the kind of exhilarating freedom we all truly crave, the freedom to stand confidently and joyfully being who we were created to be, is in embracing being a slave to righteousness – giving ourselves to what is truly valuable.
The flip side of that is resisting the sin which wants to enslave us. Saying “not a chance” to sin!
Again, what do we get from this habit? DEATH! This is the experience of hundreds of people on here!
But if we voluntarily offer ourselves as slaves to God and choose righteous paths, our unearned gift is eternal life in Christ! Not just in the “NEXT” life, but thriving in this life as well.”
Finally, righteousness leads to sanctification, and sanctification opens the door toward a life of joy. Today I pray:
“Father, help me to have a goal of living right.”
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