Victory or Death
Moreover, what shall we say about our failings and
shortcomings, and how in their midst can we have confidence before God. Concerning
this, we evolve into one of two dispositions. One is that we lean upon our
fallen nature and we become our own excuse. Seeing all sin as equal, and
knowing perfection is not attainable, we sink and surrender. Unwillingly, as
Paul proclaimed, we drown in sin and so grace abounds. Though we may not
articulate it as such, such is the disposition of the heart. By contrast, another
disposition is to see sin as an evil to conquer. Victory over sin is seen as
the prize, the proof of God in us. As Christ conquered sin and death, so we
fight to taste this same victory. The disposition of the heart looks not for
excuses, but rather the path to victory. When the need to make excuses is
greater than the need to forge a path to victory, the soul is surely
spiritually sick at best, or desperately lost at worse. The power of the living
God imparted to His children will never serve to foster complacency in the face
of sin, for we are more than conquerors through Christ who died for us. Let your
fight not be to excuse the obvious, but rather to become victorious over the inevitable!
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