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I know my past. I am well aware of my failures. I do not need someone else to remind me, or point them out. I’m aware. I know. I see them clearly.

It’s not that I desire to sin. I don’t. In fact, I am not sure that I ever can remember a time where I felt like sin choices were good. And yet, even though I knew better, I still allowed myself to choose sin over holiness.

I regret the times I have sinned. I wish I could go back and make the right choice, but I can’t. What I can do, however, is not let my sin choices become sin patterns. I can choose to learn from my sin and the consequences that it brings, and make better choices in the present and in my future. I can remember that my sin isn’t what defines me – God’s grace is.

I can either let sin label me with condemnation, or I can let God label me with affirmation. I can either be dead in sin, or alive in Christ Jesus.

God, in all of His goodness, saw me – a sinner, in a state of brokenness and defeat, and He extended to me the hand of grace. Romans 8 says it this way, “So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. And because you belong to Him, the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you from the power of sin that leads to death. The law of Moses was unable to save us because of the weakness of our sinful nature. So God did what the law could not do. He sent His own Son in a body like the bodies we sinners have. And in that body declared an end to sins control over us by giving His Son as a sacrifice for our sins. He did this so that the requirement of the law would be fully satisfied for us, who no longer follow our sinful nature but instead follow the Spirit.” (v.1-4)

I may have a sin nature, but I no longer have to be enslaved to it. Greater is the power of the life-giving Spirit of God living within me, than the power and pull of my sins. My sins do not define me. God’s presence defines me.

I am no longer condemned. I am free. God is for me. Not against me.

“What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? Since He did not spare even His own Son but gave Him up for us all, won’t He also give us everything else?” (Romans 8:31-32)

We who are in Christ are no longer condemned slaves of sin. We are beloved children of God.

Blessings!