John 1:19-34 | What am I going to do about it?

What is there to say but that I will trust in the Lord's work? As someone who has struggled with varying degrees of self-deprecation, I find it is easy to agree with the accuser. I have committed sin. I have fallen short in a seeming infinite number of ways. But the Lord does not see it that way. He knows the number and has still removed it from me. It was while I was still a sinner that Christ died for me. And He set me free from that sin. How insulting must it be that I so quickly run back to make my identity one who is stuck in their sin? The Lord is good at what He does.

Seeing that I have been freed from my sin, it is my determination to walk in freedom from it. I am released from my debt. I do not want to return or start to incur debt again. I will walk by the Spirit of God. Galatians makes a bold claim in chapter 5,

16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
-Galatians 5:16

Before the Lamb of God took my sins away, I did not have the ability to walk in the Spirit. Have you noticed that throughout the Old Testament that the Spirit dwelt on people but not within them? The places the Spirit would abide is those areas that were entirely consecrated unto Him. So the fact that the Spirit of God can abide in me is because the Lord has sufficiently cleansed me and consecrated me unto His purpose. I am not obligated to live as a sinner. Rather, I am now free to live as a righteous man, devoted entirely to the Lord.

His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue
-2 Peter 1:3

Seeing that I am free from my sin, He has given me what I need to walk out my life before Him. So I will make it my effort and I will run this race set before me. I will fight the good fight of faith and trust in the Lord's work for me. I am not left to my own devices on this. I am fully reliant upon Him and His. Blessed be the name of the Lord!

What steps of application will you take?