Well today is going to be interesting!! I have to only do "crowd control" at school. The Phoenix Coyotes (hockey team) are bringing some people to our school to do a hockey clinic they will run everything. So really the next 2 days are going to be pretty easy for me. I know the kids will love it. I am really getting excited to watch them interact with these people. I don't know if it will be players, bench warmers or admin people but a change of pace is always interesting to me.
Chapter 6:
1-13 talks alot about why we should stop sinning... and how we as christian believe that once we have accepted Christ we are dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. this is hard for me to comprehend. if we are to stop sinning why do we keep sinning... justifing that it is not a sin, or making excuses why we still sin... I know I am so guilty of this at what point is it gossip??? Do I start gossip?? Do I go to the source?? Am I 2 faced??
But then in verse 14 it gives me hope..."For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace"
16 what are you "slaves" too??? Sin or obedience??? I choose obedience which leads to righteousness. Although not perfect at it by any means.. In fact still have alot of work to do to try and get there and stay there...
18 from The Message
All your lives you've let sin tell you what to do. But thank God you've started listening to a new master, one whose commands set you free to live openly in his freedom!
19I'm using this freedom language because it's easy to picture. You can readily recall, can't you, how at one time the more you did just what you felt like doing—not caring about others, not caring about God—the worse your life became and the less freedom you had? And how much different is it now as you live in God's freedom, your lives healed and expansive in holiness?
20-21As long as you did what you felt like doing, ignoring God, you didn't have to bother with right thinking or right living, or right anything for that matter. But do you call that a free life? What did you get out of it? Nothing you're proud of now. Where did it get you? A dead end.
22-23But now that you've found you don't have to listen to sin tell you what to do, and have discovered the delight of listening to God telling you, what a surprise! A whole, healed, put-together life right now, with more and more of life on the way! Work hard for sin your whole life and your pension is death. But God's gift is real life, eternal life, delivered by Jesus, our Master.
So the way I look at it is: it is up to us... How are you going to live??
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