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Devotional - 17th Dec 2020

 'And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness' (Romans 8:10).

We belong to God when He created us, then sin separated us from Him. He didn't just leave it there; He came in the Person of His Son, Jesus Christ and bought us back with the precious blood of Jesus, so we could be His again. That's such a beautiful love story, of One who loves so much - our heavenly Father. We too have a part to play in this story. We must accept Jesus Christ, the Son of God by grace through our faith in Him to be apart of the family of God. Every born-again believer has the Spirit of Christ within them and now belongs to Him. Without the Spirit, we can not belong to Christ, because they both work together. When Christ lives in us, the body is dead because of sin - that is, our physical human body starts to die and will eventually die as a result of sin in us and in this world. But it doesn't end there, it also means we are spiritually alive in the Spirit. Our righteousness is as filthy rags, so it is only because of Christ's righteousness, that we are spiritually alive, even though our physical sin-ridden body is dying. Praise be to God!  We all have a choice, we can choose either to accept Christ and have life in him through the Holy Spirit or to deny Christ and die  physically and spiritually. We were created to live in total dependence upon the Lord and not to rely upon ourselves. To have and enjoy sweet fellowship with our heavenly Father, be guided by His Holy Spirit as we abide in Christ and He in us. Let us choose to accept Christ and His righteousness and live the life God designed for us to live. Let us praise and thank God that even though the physical body is dying because of sin, the spirit is alive because of righteousness. One day we will be with Christ forever and will receive a new resurrected body like Christ's, for eternity.

Have a wonderful day 🌹🌹

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