Living a righteous life.

Lauren's life as of late has been such an inspiration to me. It is amazing to see how much God is working in her life. I have been in such a battle with my Christianity this past year. I backslide every other week. Of course I know that no one is perfect and we all sin, but I know in my heart that I want God to be the center of my life. I fall away from that so quickly. Again, I know this is the case with everyone, but I really want to make a change. I have decided to take things one day at a time. Doing this with putting focus on God has really opened my eyes to my sin. I have been feeling a lot more convicted lately which I am so thankful for. Anyway, last night at RUF Ande talked about how God loves us because he does. SURPRISE! It's so hard to understand this! How could anyone love me that much! You know? He talked about how we try to do good things to make God love us, but God loves us without those things. This talk made me think about living a righteous life. Because God loves us because he does, does that mean we shouldn't try to live righteously? This question was answered when I was reading my Bible last night.


Romans 6:1-2

What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?


Romans 6:14-25

We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I wasn't to do I do not do, but what I hate to do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do-this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God's law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God-through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.