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Romans 6:6

For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.

Sometimes it feels like grace is such an ‘impractical practice’. After all, by definition, we do nothing when we live under grace.

But that is the point. The very things we need forgiveness from, the very things we want fulfillment in, the very things we want freedom for, don’t ultimately come from us.

For those of us who have strived to change ourselves, I am sure we have found it an onerous task. Don’t we read that self-control is fruit of a Spirit-filled life (Galatians 5:23), not a method to achieve it? Don’t we read that the Spirit is a gift (Luke 11:!3), that is, it comes by grace not by us being ‘spiritual’? We have a choice, to believe what we are conditioned to think or to read the word given in Scripture.

You can’t happily live in sin and claim to be “under grace”. And in the same way, we don’t avoid sin by setting up the greatest set of rules to keep us in check.

Under grace, we become “slaves” to righteousness. Grace breaks the power of sin.

Prayer for the week: Father, it is your love that forgave my sin, fulfills my destiny and brings freedom. Thank you for treasuring relationship with me that you would give it all for me. Your love is more than real and is how I want to love you and others.