Who Will We Serve?
Joshua 24:15And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Each and every day we have a decision to make. The question to this utmost decision is who will we serve? For while in this body we can very easily serve ourselves. We are wrapped in flesh that craves, urges, and longs to willfully sin. Yet, love conquers sin; love conquers our natural inclinations to sin.
This love is Jesus Christ. This Christ who was born in flesh and yet being God he willingly suffered the humiliation and agony of scourging--iron nails, and blood-bleached wood. To this Christ suffered and died all to carry the sins of the world to the grave. Yet the grave could not hold righteousness and love conquered death in Christ's resurrection (Romans 5:8But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us).
The death and resurrection of Christ and faith in Him delivers us from serving sin, from serving ourselves. For though sin is ever with us our faith in Christ as Savior is considered by him righteous. We are therefore without sin in the sight of Christ, in the sight of God (Romans 4:7" BLESSED ARE THOSE WHOSE LAWLESS DEEDS HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN,AND WHOSE SINS HAVE BEEN COVERED).
Who will we serve? For in ourselves, through ourselves we can only serve ourselves. But through Christ all things are possible even our righteousness and salvation (Romans 6:18and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness).
This love is Jesus Christ. This Christ who was born in flesh and yet being God he willingly suffered the humiliation and agony of scourging--iron nails, and blood-bleached wood. To this Christ suffered and died all to carry the sins of the world to the grave. Yet the grave could not hold righteousness and love conquered death in Christ's resurrection (Romans 5:8But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us).
The death and resurrection of Christ and faith in Him delivers us from serving sin, from serving ourselves. For though sin is ever with us our faith in Christ as Savior is considered by him righteous. We are therefore without sin in the sight of Christ, in the sight of God (Romans 4:7" BLESSED ARE THOSE WHOSE LAWLESS DEEDS HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN,AND WHOSE SINS HAVE BEEN COVERED).
Who will we serve? For in ourselves, through ourselves we can only serve ourselves. But through Christ all things are possible even our righteousness and salvation (Romans 6:18and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness).
posted by Michael Byrd at 6:02 AM
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