Are you like me and have moments of severe sinful vulnerability? We know what the right thing is, because it plays in our minds in slow motion, and can be visualized and calculated, but we deliberately choose not to do it. I believe this is a daily fight within every red blooded follower of Christ. It’s a battle we have within ourselves to choose between what’s easy and what’s right.
Nor must you surrender any part of yourselves to sin to be used for wicked purposes. Instead, give yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life, and surrender your whole being to him to be used for righteous purposes. (Romans 6:13 GNB)
This passage in Romans is a platitude for Christ followers to consider: Do we want to allow “sin” (everything that separates us from the love of God) to be the master of our relationship with God and of our lives? Or would we rather surrender our natural desire toward “sin” to be used for a righteous purpose? It is apparent to me that many of us would choose the later and come to the conclusion that it is next to impossible, so what now? We have to surrender.
When we “surrender to a righteous purpose”, we are saying that the sin we want to do no longer matters to us. We are actively proclaiming that our mortal bodies are dead to us because they died when Christ died for our sins. If the sin we want to do no longer matters to us, we no longer want to do it. We are surrendering our mortality toward sin for life in the Spirit, to have life with Jesus’ resurrection. It is not easy, but it is something we can visualize and play out in our minds every single day and every single moment until we are totally surrendered to a righteous purpose in Jesus.
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