Living Under Grace

 

“For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.”

—Romans 6:14

The story is told of a woman and a man who had been held captive by an evil slumlord.

Every day the slumlord forced these two captives to go to the central city well and fetch a day’s supply of water. Then, he made them grind hard stones at the city’s central rock pile and bring the stone dust home with them. Only if they ground enough stone dust would the slumlord feed them supper.

One day, the slumlord died and his son set the two captives free. The very next day the two arose at their usual time and made their way to the city well. They fetched water and carried it to the home of the now-dead slumlord.

Then the former captives went to the city’s central rock pile where they spent the day grinding stones into stone dust.

You see, the captives had been set free, but were unable, or unwilling, to appropriate their freedom.

As believers in the life-renewing power of the Lord Jesus Christ, we must make certain we let go of our past way of life and fully grab onto the new freedom we have in Christ.

The Apostle Paul expressed this important truth in Romans 6:12-14:

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.

Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.

For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.

Having been set free from the penalty of sin through God’s redeeming grace, let us wrap our arms tightly around His mercy, grace, and love.

Let us shun our past, cling to the present, and look to the future through eyes of faith.

 

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