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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.
