Victory in Jesus
Devotions:
“Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:” Galatians 1:3-4 KJV
We cannot deliver ourselves from our sins, only JESUS can. We try and try to make our lives better and presentable to God but all we are doing is dead works that cannot set us free. What sets us free is believing what Jesus did. Our victory is not in our own effort but in Jesus' effort. Believing in what Jesus did is acting like it is the truth. he has made us the righteousness of God, we have been set free from sin and Jesus gave us His life.
“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”
Galatians 2:20 KJV
I died by the law through Christ. That death paid for all my sins. The debt was paid in full, but now I live. The new me is once again in the image of Christ. His life in me is my life. My body is dead because of sin but my spirit is life because He made me righteous. If I yield to my flesh when it wants to do something contrary to God then I walk in death. But if I walk in line with who I am in Christ by the power of the Spirit within me then I walk in God. I do not deliver myself but I look to the greater one in me. In my weakness I glory because I look to the greater one in me to manifest through me. The power and the Glory are His, I am just an earthen vessel.