Truths of God

Romans 8:3-4
For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man, in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.


We try so hard to follow the "rules," don’t we? You see it all over the Old Testament – no matter how hard the Israelites tried, they could not follow the Mosaic Law, they could not keep the commandments. And in their great pride, many times they just dug themselves deeper rather than calling out to God for help, which is all they really needed to do.

The ironic thing is that as hard as we try it isn’t until we give up and finally throw up our hands, admitting defeat, admitting that we need Christ because we are not capable, that we are finally able to "keep" the commandments. It is in knowing that we can’t and accepting that we don’t have to, because Christ did, that gives us true victory – over the Law, over sin, over death, and really over our lives.

It is when we are living according to the Spirit that we are victorious. This is something that we simply need to walk in the knowledge of each and every day. It’s not something we have to strive toward, or work on, it’s simply something we need to acknowledge, and then live in the light of that truth. How many times has Satan been thrilled over something in our lives, simply because we believed his lies over the truths of God, and it affected the way we lived and behaved. See, it has nothing to do with doing the right things that makes us victorious, it has everything to do with knowing the truths of God, and simply living our lives as though we really believe they are true.

Do you believe? Well, then, let’s start living like we do!