Daily Devotion
With Pastor Ancel Presnell
“DELIVERED FROM MISERY”
Apostle Paul’s struggle between knowing to do right and yet continuing to fail and commit sin left him in a place of misery! If we as Christians were honest, we would have to admit that it leaves us in the same place as well. It is misery when we desire so badly to do what is right because of our new walk in Christ, and yet we continue to struggle with sin.
We must realize that the flesh and the sinful tendency of it will be with us until the Lord takes us home. We will struggle with the fallen nature of humanity the rest of our lives on this earth. There will be victories along the way and each day; Thank God for those victories. However, our sinful nature will continue to meet our new nature in Christ in opposition every day.
So how will we receive deliverance from this constant misery that the flesh imposes on us? We rest in the fact that we have been delivered eternally through and by Christ and His finished work on the cross.
We must remind ourselves these truths: Jesus was tempted by the devil with sin in the wilderness; Jesus remained sinless. Christ lived in the same old sin-cursed world as us; He remained sinless. Christ lived out God’s Law and He did so with total perfection. Jesus was taken by the religious crowd and nailed to the cross for what they claimed was sin, and yet He was sinless. Jesus hung in agony and open shame on that cross as a sinless Lamb, and God imputed our sin onto Him. He was made to be sin so that we could be made righteous.
We will battle the flesh the rest of our days on this earth, but we must remember, we have been justified by Christ and His work on the cross! Our sinful flesh will not mandate that we pay for our sins in eternal death any longer. We have a deliverer and He has delivered us from the penalty of sin which is eternal death in Hell. Praise God for our Delivering Savior, Christ Jesus!
Romans 7:24, 25 “24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.”
