NorthStar Community Daily Devotional

June 1

Scripture focus: So, my friends, this is something like what has taken place with you. When Christ died he took that entire rule-dominated

way of life down with him and left it in the tomb, leaving you free to "marry" a resurrection life and bear "offspring" of faith for God. For as long as we lived that old way of life, doing whatever we felt we could get away with, sin was calling most of the shots as the old law code hemmed us in. And this made us all the more rebellious. In the end, all we had to show for it was miscarriages and stillbirths. But now that we're no longer shackled to that domineering mate of sin, and out from under all those oppressive regulations and fine print, we're free to live a new life in the freedom of God. Romans 7:4-6 The Message

Most of us – if we are willing to speak honestly – are familiar with “sin calling most of the shots.” In fact, isn’t it the struggle between the desires of our true, God-created selves and our inconsistent behaving that really knocks our socks off – in a bad way? What is terrible – for me at least – is the awareness that sin is calling more shots in my life than I am. That’s yukky.

Clearly, those of us who have made a decision to “believe” don’t like it when sin calls the shots.

So what’s up with that? More on that in the days ahead…

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