Our disordered passions end in disintegration. Unless we turn by repentance, that will end in death. “While we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death” Romans 7:5 (NRSV). The Father has given us the Son and the Spirit to lead us away from this path of death to the fullness of life. We owe Him everything because of this initiative. “So then, brothers and sisters, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh—for if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God” Romans 8:12-14 (NRSV).
October 8, 2018|Categories: Christ, Death, Devotionals, Father, Life|Tags: Debtors, Disintegration Or Restoration, Flesh, Fullness of life|
About the Author: H. Lamar Smith
Native of Alabama. Graduated from Valley High School, Valley, AL. Graduate of Trevecca Nazarene College, 1966. Graduate of Trevecca Nazarene University, M.A. 1992. Pastored churches in Tennessee, Kentucky, Oklahoma and Alabama.