He Reigns in Me ♥

Romans 6:12 "Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires."

What if I don't know that I am obeying the evil desires of the sin nature I have been born into?

Well, when I was lost and wandering carefree through the world there was a lot that I allowed and a lot that I tolerated. I tolerated the misuse of my temple in ways such as smoking cigs, starving it, forcing myself to throw up, over eating and overcompensating for the void within with marijuana, self-mutilation, lots of other things. I lost something extremely precious to a man who was not deserving. Although I thank the Lord for keeping me protected and not allowing me to sleep with more than one person one man is enough for the enemy to remind me of who I once was; How I once allowed the sin within my mortal body to REIGN. 

Thankfully now Christ reigns. But that isn't something that happened overnight. I was going to church RELIGIOUSLY (no pun intended) for about 6 months before I could muster up any courage at all to declare Him as Lord and be held accountable for the sin that I was still desperately clinging to in my life. 

But back to the question at hand. Throughout the list mentioned above in the first paragraph, I could always recall, a voice within feeding me truth. A voice within that I figured was just the good person inside of me helping me. Telling me not to sleep with this person, not to try that drug, not to attend that party. There was this inner God consciousness that I believe every human being created is born with. Although I didn't have His Holy Spirit living within me He was near me protecting me and guiding me. Did I always listen? Definitely not. Sometimes I did though, and I was always grateful when I did. 

So you see I can't say I believe that everyone is that ignorant of the sin that seeks to destroy them. Somehow one way or another we are always battling the definite YES or NO. We are always wondering if we should put our finger in the electrical socket or not. If we should sneak into mom and dads bedroom to find the presents or not. To steal the chocolate candy when everyone leaves class to go to recess or not. These are all things that I can remember questioning from the elementary years. Those evil desires that we question, some chalk up to just plain curiosity, are there! They live within both you and me. Yet now they are only dwelling in a Holy Tomb. Our bodies once offered as instruments to God are now pure and clean and our battle is one of dark principalities and forces. When the sin nature seeks to kill and destroy we turn victorious to Christ who lives within us and stand upon the solid rock that He is shouting "I AM VICTORIOUS!". 

Praise the Lord for that good news. I needed to hear that and then some.

I pray you guys have a blessed Saturday and shoot me a prayer request if you have one.

♥cheche