12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. 13 Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. 14 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. 15 What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, 18 and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. 19 I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. (Romans 6)
This chapter is all about how we view ourselves in Christ. Sometimes it can be a struggle to understand God's grace at work. We always have a tendency to revert back into some kind of "works" mentality - that we have to strive on our own accord to be good enough. If we battle that too much, we can go to the other extreme of seeing grace as some sort of liscence to sin. Grace simply means we submit to God; let Him rule. When He does, he gives the "grace" - the ability to do what only He can - help us live lives pleasing to Him. It can be hard to receive such a free gift, but also easy to take it for granted. May we have His grace to receive His grace today.
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