A Daily Devotional – Various Scriptures – Personal Meditation (9)

A Daily Devotional – Various Scriptures – Personal Meditation

Comment: As a fireman, fire was an enemy to knock down and once it was, this did not mean that the fire was out and we could all go home. Hot spots become a serious fight and these were numerous at times, once the wetness of the wood dried, fire would erupt and spread quickly. In a similar thought, the effects of sin in our soul was knocked down. Romans 8:1 – There is therefore NOW no condemnation to those who are in Christ/Messiah Jesus. If there is sin (and there is) after having personal faith in the Gospel we have not lost salvation, but we have lost sight of the suffering Christ/Messiah and our Sonship through the Spirit is crippled because we fail to quench these sins with applying faith. These hot spots of sin will erupt and if we do not deal with these immediately we will lose fellowship with our Father. Many children of God walk in these faithless and overwhelming hot spots because they have become debtors to the flesh.

Devotional: Romans 8:12-17 – Therefore, I hope you like the word ‘therefore’ the apostle Paul likes it as he has used it thirty-four times in his epistle to the Romans and twice here in chapter 8. Here in verse 12, in referencing the first eleven verses he reminds us that since we have been freed from the bondage of indwelling sin that our redeemed focus ought to be “we are absolute children of God through the Spirit of God”.

We are no longer debtors to live as the world does “in the flesh” to do so is to die “spiritually”, we cannot live a godly life in the Spirit if we flirt with the world, that is; if we do not put to death these “hot spots of sin” we will die spiritually. So, I see that there is a responsible requirement in every believer’s life to be “led by the Holy Spirit” this is a personal willingness to put to death the sin which is the deeds of the body.

For as many of us who are led by the Spirit, these are the Sons of God, if you have fear of God, then you are not being led by the Spirit as you ought. Living in the Spirit of God is not an option for the child of God, you must walk in the Spirit of God or the end result, is a return to bondage and fear. I would much rather look to God my Father and cry out with “Abba Father” as the Spirit bears witness in me that I am His child.