Sin??!!

Sin, it’s something many people don’t like to talk about it, but I think it’s something that needs to be addressed in our culture.

I’m just as guilty as anyone when it comes to sinning. It’s so easy to get caught up in sin and sometimes it feels like we’re overpowered by it. It feels like we can’t escape it and that it’s controlling our lives. Whether it’s lying to others, stealing, looking at porn, self injury, cheating, it’s all stuff that we all deal with.

I hate feeling like I’m controlled by sin. I’m sure you do too.
The thing is…we’re not controlled by sin. We don’t have to live a life that deals with sinning every day. I know it’s impossible to not be tempted, but it is possible to not sin. The Bible says “Christ has made us free” Galatians 5:1. We are free. We don’t have to sin.

We were once slaves to sin. We were born to a sinful nature because of the curse that God placed on humanity through Adam and Eve. BUT Christ paid the price to get rid of that curse. He paid the ultimate price to take away our sin, His life. We don’t have to live in sin anymore.

Yet we still sin, day in and day out. We feel like we’re in bondage. Like there’s no way out and that we will never overcome the sin we’re struggling with.

The thing is…we don’t have to do anything to be free from that sin. The price has already been paid. We just have to messing around with the habits of the life we’re free from.

Allow God to take control of whatever it is you’re struggling with, that’s the only way you’ll feel completely forgiven.

Ephesians 4:22-24 (The Message)
Since, then, we do not have the excuse of ignorance, everything—and I do mean everything—connected with that old way of life has to go. It's rotten through and through. Get rid of it! And then take on an entirely new way of life—a God-fashioned life, a life renewed from the inside and working itself into your conduct as God accurately reproduces his character in you.