The halfbaked Bard

Rom:8:1 Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Thanks be to God. Despite seeing my wretchedness. Despite knowing my rebellion, He loved me so much that He did not want me to end up in hell. So He did something only He could do in order to redeem me. And because of that, I stand uncondemned. Forever. I have been saved for good. The enemy cannot touch my destiny. I hope the wonderful thing I have as an inheritance that my Father has reserved for me. And now nothing can seperate me from His love  to me. Image credit: https://stock.adobe.com/in/search?k=infinity+sign

Wretched man that I am. Who will set me free from the body of this death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Rom:7:24-25 I need to realise my wretchedness. I was indulged in sin. God saved me. Even after being rescued, I struggle to do things of God. To revert from sinfulness. To love God with all my heart. I follow the cravings of my flesh. That shows my wretchedness. My plight. My rebellion to the one who loves me.  The truth of I cannot save myself has to sink in. I cannot set myself free. And only Christ. He loved me first. He pulled me out unto His bosom. The contrast between my limitless wretchedness and Gods unending love. My perpetual rebellion and God's tagless love. Not out of compulsion. But out of compassion. When I least deserved it. Image courtesy: https://www.dreamstime.com/beautiful-close-up-zebra-high-contrast-black-white-high-contrast-black-white-zebra-close-up-image171761708

For what I want to do, I do not do, but what I hate to do. Rom:7:15 For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. Rom:7:18. For what I do is not the good that I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do - this I keep on doing. Rom:7:19. This is the constant struggle of a man called Christian. The struggle of wanting to do good. But ending up doing the very things that I did not want to do. And you do not want to do the things of the world, but you ultimately end up doing the same. No matter how tested, how mature he is, the Christian always ends up doing this, because of the power of sin in him. But the flame is being kindled. The Spirit gives him the desire to live according to Him, to do things according to His desire. A sinner continues to revel in doing things which God hates without any desire to do things in the good way. But the Christian not only desires, but pushes himself to do good. Of course the graph would rise subtly and slowly, but i...

We serve in the new way of the Spirit. Rom:7:6 Not in the old way of the written code. We are not destined to travel in the old path. Behold the new has come. Curses are cancelled. Sinful ways are cleansed. Dark dungeons are enlightened. You need not run by your feelings. You need not run with your old fuel. Behold everything is new. The Spirit in you, has made you alive unto Him. You need not run in the path that has been cut for you by the enemy when you were his property. Now you are the Lord's beloved. His asset you are. His light will therefore shine. That is why it is said that you are free. The Son has come to set you free. And therefore you are free indeed. May you enjoy this newness that has already been given to you. Image credit: https://www.vecteezy.com/photo/68266586-new-little-plant-growing-on-a-rock-symbolizing-new-life-and-beginning

Rom:6:22 Enslaved to God. I want to be enslaved to God. I want to do things which please God. I want to come out of the slavery I'm stuck in. Where I am forced to do things which I hate to do. As a new creation, slave to righteousness I am made. I am free indeed, but slave to God. I want to be a man after God's own heart. I want to be a person doing the right things. Making the right choices. Seeing the right things. Hearing the right things. Filling my heart with the right things. I want to hate things which I once loved. I want to resist my old master and surrender to my rightful Lord. Reciprocate the Agape Love to me. Unconditional love that loves me without any tags. I want to be a man who thinks only about my God. Always. I want to, but I am unable to. I fall miserably again, yet again. Creating wounds and scars around me and in me. Scars that are difficult to heal. Still my selfishness I pursue. The old man forces me. Though I need not listen to his voice. And...

Rom:6:14. Sin shall not be master over you. That is freedom from slavery. That sin cannot reign over you. No forcing. No consequences. No condemnation. No eternal death. This is what happened on the cross. A deliverance which we could not have gained by ourselves. Only by Grace. Image courtesy; https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/teddy-bear-crushed-by-a-heavy-old-military-boot-gm535939601-57383794