“Therefore,
[there is] now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are
in Christ Jesus, who live [and] walk not after the dictates of the flesh,
but after the
dictates of the Spirit.”
Romans 8:1 (Amplified
Version)
One of the
greatest tools or weapons in the enemy’s arsenal against believers is
condemnation.
Sometimes, he
even has a co-conspirator.
You know the one
– he appears in the mirror when you look into it!
We can be so
quick, too quick really, to condemn ourselves.
We see others
being blessed, we see others being used of God, we listen to their great testimonies
but it seems as if our own walk is
stuck in neutral(or
worse yet-careening out of control in reverse).
What do we do?
We start beating
ourselves up!
God won’t use
me.
God can’t use
me.
God has so many
other great vessels, surely I’m the lone tare sown among all the wheat in my
church.
Before you know
it we’ve convinced ourselves that we are the vilest creature since the serpent
slithered into the Garden of Eden.
God loves us.
He convicts us
of our sin.
But He doesn’t
kick us when we are down, He kisses us!
What do I mean?
He tells us –
right after the most quoted verse in all of the Book as a matter of fact –
that:
“For God did not
send his Son into the world to condemn
the world,
but to save the world through him”.
Why?
The previous
verse answered that.
It was because
of His marvelously wonderful love for us.
Don’t believe
the enemy’s lies.
Certainly don’t
repeat them to yourself!
The antidote for
condemnation is Romans 8:1
Chew (meditate) on that one
for a while!
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