...With The Entirety Of Your Being

September 23

We cannot ‘compartmentalize’ our Christianity. We cannot be patriotic, tax-paying citizens without being faithful to our marriage vows. We cannot be honorable in marriage without being upright in our business dealings. We cannot indulge a little bit of sin within ourselves and still be accounted righteous.

We must place all our sin under the blood of Jesus. We must live every area of our lives in compliance with His specifications, for as the Word says, if we are guilty of the law in one point, we are guilty of all, as the half-brother of Jesus declared in James 2:10.

As Paul, who expounded doctrine in greater depth than any other contributor to the Bible, said in Romans 6:13-16, “Do not offer parts of your body to serve sin as things to be used in doing evil. Instead, offer yourselves completely to God as people who have died to sin and now live. Offer the parts of your body to God to be used in doing good.

“Sin will not be your master because you are not under the law but under God’s grace. So what should you do? Should you sin because you are under grace, not under the law? NO! You know that when you give yourselves to sin, you are its slave…Rather, honor the Lord with the entirety of your being so you may be right with Him.”