Good News

Do you struggle with sin? Do you go to church on Sunday recognizing that you are a sinful human being, feeling like you're not one millimeter more sanctified today than you were last year? Do you suffer from sins that beset you, that seem to recur over and over? Paul has something to say to you.

Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness? But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed, and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness (Rom 6:16-18).

If you are truly born of God, Paul says that you've been "freed from sin" and "slaves of righteousness". That's not to suggest you never sin. Look at Paul's own self-evaluation in Romans 7:13-25. His own cry was "Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?"

Believers struggle with sin. If you don't struggle with sin, you may not be saved. The good news, however, is that the outcome is certain. We will be in the process of sanctification -- more and more conformed to the holiness of God -- in this life until the ultimate removal of the flesh, death. Then ... we shall be glorified! Good news indeed. The question is who are you going to trust? Your feelings or God? Your choice.