It’s Time To Grow Up Bible Text: Rom. 7:14-25

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It’s Time To Grow Up 

Bible Text: Rom. 7:14-25

“If there’s this sin in one’s life that keeps on recurring and one keeps asking for forgiveness all the time yet it still continues to recur, what can one do?”

First I congratulate you because there’s the consciousness in you not to sin.  It is an evidence of the fact that you are not a lackadaisical Christian.  All serious-minded, born again Christians face the same challenge no matter their level in Christianity.   This writer is not excluded himself! Before we become born again, our patterns of life did not matter to us.  We could freely abuse people, steal, gossip, commit sexual immorality or decide not to forgive those who offended us.  We could falsify records anywhere we found ourselves. Some of us could even steal church money and do all those things Gal. 5:19-20 asked us not to do.  We would never be bothered at all that we did all these things! Indeed we would encourage others to do it.

However, once we become born again and we now partner with God in fellowshipping, bible study and trying to do what God told us to do, we begin to mirror our lives with the provisions of the Bible.  Most often, we would discover that there are still some elements of the old sins we are struggling with.     Hear what Paul said in Rom. 7:18-19 “For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do…”    

The way out of this quagmire is to partner with God the more by studying the word of God, (Josh. 1:8) and endeavouring to do what it says, pray for deliverance Matt: 7:7, and identify the cause of the temptations and stay away from them.  The more of the word of God we know, the more we will be strengthened by them.  The more we ask God to help us the more the consciousness not to sin will come and the more we pray to God, closer will we draw to overcoming the challenges.  In other words, the more we are busy with God, the less our attention will focus on sins.

Prayer Point:  Oh Lord, I have no strength of my own, let your spirit control my life so I can abstain from these (name them) recurring sins in my life in Jesus’ name.