Word of Encouragement for Every New Day ~ 22 July 2008

Word of Encouragement for Every New Day ~ 22 July 2008

Ten Commandments: #10 You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not set your desire on your neighbor’s house or land, his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor. (Deut. 5:21). There is a difference between freedom of the world and freedom defined by God. The tenth commandment states, you shall not covet. In 1 Corinthians 3:3 the Word of God says, You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere men? Romans 7:7-9 says, What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed I will not have known what sin was except through the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “Do not covet.” But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from law, sin is dead. Once I was alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. Today is a day of redemption. Today’s word of encouragement is: Sin sprang to life and I died. Honestly, have we read all the ten commandments and realized our sin? Has it brought death? Are we still worldly? Have we not felt death in our bones because of our sin? Today, as we conclude the series on the ten commandments, God says that we have an opportunity. Have we examined every crevasse, every hidden crack, and every weed, where sin has creped in and has taken dominion? Let us today cry out to God with a battle cry. Father, no longer am I chained, bound, and slaved to sin. Today, forgive me father, I repent, I surrender all to you. I may fall seven times, I may fall prey 77 times, but Father, I will still get up! Father, you fill the gap, fill and overflow my lack, my sins, my voids, my emptiness. In Jesus name! I will not turn back!!!!! © July 2008 Shaun Lee. www.everynation.org.sg archive: www.shauntzen.blogspot.com