In the Jail house of sin.

Have you ever been to court? Even worse have you ever been to jail? We live in a free country, but the one thing we are not free to do is break our laws. I am not a perfect person and when I am convicted of sin the first thing I want to do is defend myself. As humans we have a great desire for self preservation. We go to health food stores, we take our bodies very seriously. We coddle and care for our own flesh as if our flesh could save us. If some of us had our own way we would pamper ourselves to the point that we spend millions of dollars in body reconstruction. The body is not bad. We live in a body, and our bodies need food rest and sleep if we are to stay healthy and sane. But the bible tells us we are to present our bodies a living sacrifice unto God, for this is our spiritual act of service.

What happens when we want things and we cannot get them? Do we become frustrated and demand that the cosmos bend to our own particular desires? In fact you are a child of God and doesn't God work all things for your good? Without self sacrifice and self denial salvation is impossible. Salvation from sin is the result of self denial, and salvation from our selves, our pride, our self esteem, our envy, our jealousy, is the result of self sacrifice with the willingness to submit to God in every circumstance and decision. Will God keep good things from you? Only if you desire those things more than you desire being holy. The bible says "be holy for I (God) am holy."

We all fall short of the glory of God, and that is why we need a Saviour. He (Jesus) not only saves us from an eternal debt, but he free us to live a life here and now, despite how hard your circumstances are to the Glory of God. We must magnify the Name of Christ in all we do, and work out those things that belong to our salvation with fear and trembling, to the glory of God.

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