The halfbaked Bard

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

Rom:5 Through one man sin entered the world.  Through one man's transgression, many died - the spiritual death. Through one man's disobedience, all who came from his loins, his posterity all became sinners. Not by act, but by inherent nature. The tendency to sin and rebel against God. Though one man death reigned in all. Through one transgression, there resulted condemnation to all men. But through one man, grace abounded. Through one man the gift of righteousness will reign in life. Through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men. Through obedience of the one, many will be made righteous. The story of mankind is this. One act of disobedience, resulted in man's inherent nature of sinfulness. One act of obedience resulted in righteousness to all who believe. Sinful nature imputed through inheritance. Righteousness imputed through faith by Grace. It is by Grace you have been saved through faith. Image credit: https://www.istockphot...

Rom:5:11 And not only this, but we also exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation. Reconciled with God. Rom:5:10. For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son. We were enemies. Not destined to come into His presence. Destined to eternal hell far from Him. Destined to punishment for eternity. But now reconciled - by the death of His Son. Not by our goodness or repentance. But by the sacrificial death of the spotless Lamb. It was His intiative, when we never wanted or desired reconciliation. That is when He forgave something which He abhors and reconcile with us. He had all the right to punish us. But He chose to forgive. He chose to reinstate. What a loving God! We only received the reconciliation. Do nothing to reconcile but receive. What a loving God! Image courtesy: https://heartsoulmindstrengthsite.wordpress.com/2016/03/05/reconciled/