Romans 6:1-11: Seek Freedom from Sin: Seek Life in God
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Today’s reading is Paul’s defense against the idea that to live as Jesus lived is to live without regard for the Law of Moses or without regard for Jesus’ own act of fulfilling that Law. This new covenant does not promote moral laxity; rather it brings the opportunity to live a full life of union with the law, with the spirit of the law more than the letter. Paul also goes on to remind us that we all receive the gift of resurrection through Christ. He delineates ably an argument to those who say that life in Christ and in the Spirit lacks morality because it forgives. He shows us that life in Christ is the exemplar of morality if being lived well.
So many times we forget that we ought to tend to our spiritual health as assiduously as we do our physical, emotional or mental health. We practice yoga, eat organic food, look for advice, and forget to make a stillness in our lives where we can best listen to the voice which speaks within.
Humans so often seek to separate and divide. God always seeks to unify. God brings us freedom from a life of division. He brings us life in Christ and union in the Spirit. Jesus came to live with us as God’s Word. Christ remains among us as God’s Spirit. Christ lives in us, in spite of us, always with us, ever keeping us in God’s love. Life in God is freedom, freedom to become our best potential, freedom to fulfill God’s best dream for us. Let us seek freedom to live in God.
Adapted from a Favorite written on November 6, 2017.
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