Powerless

DEVOTION
ROMANS
POWERLESS
Rom 8:1-4
8:1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man, 4 in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit. NIV

Why in the world would I want to subject myself to anything that was powerless? Yet here in lies the situation with many of my fellow believers. I believe I used to think the same way, that all those rules and regulations were there to keep me in line, to subject me to a certain format of living, to control my thoughts and actions in such a way that would make me appear to be a “good Christian” as well as make me feel “guilty” if I did not conform to them. I think I was actually in bondage to those rules, chained to them, unable to move forward with and for God. But I see here and agree those rules, the law as well as all those man devised rules are powerless to save me from death, if fact all they really serve to do is condemn me to death. I certainly am not offering myself to the actions of seeing how many of them I can offend, or break, or ignore for that matter, I am simply acknowledging to myself I cannot meet all those requirements, I am incapable of being a perfect human being and thus I am truly in need of a savior. Because I do not live for the accomplishment of the law or rules, I can. Because I have given my life to Christ, I can. He met all the righteous requirements and because I am in him and he is in me, I have as well. I am not condemned by them anymore; no I am a free man, to move forward and with my Lord