Daily Devotion
With Pastor Ancel Presnell
“DEBT FREE”
The fall of man placed us all with a debt to the flesh. We are born sinners, and we are in constant debt to the flesh. To be a debtor is to be under obligation. Before Christ saved us, we were obligated to the desires if the flesh. We simply could not get out from underneath this obligation. We owed the flesh everything that it demanded. Unfortunately, the demands of the flesh often change to require more and more each passing day.
Our flesh is a trickster. It plays tricks on us. The biggest trick that our flesh plays on us is convincing us to believe that it is for us and not against us. Our flesh has never done anything good for us. It has and will forever work against us. This is true because sin never works righteousness.
Our flesh is ridden with carnality, lack of peace, hostility towards God, and an inability to seek, find, or please God! The ultimate low that our flesh takes us to is death! It is quite nonsensical for us to pay wage to the flesh once we are saved! When we do so as a believer, we are indebting ourselves to failure, when we don’t have to. The only payment or compensation that the flesh has ever given to us is pain, suffering, destruction, and death.
If we live according to our flesh, we will always live in debt. If we live in the Holy Spirit, we are indebted to Him but receive life instead of death. This is a big difference. I thank God for the life-giving benefits of a spirit filled spirit led life. We are debt-free to sin under the Holy Spirit!
Romans 8:12, 13—”12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.”
