Dying to...

   "It takes a long time to come to a moral decision about sin, but it is the great moment in my life when I do decide that just as Jesus Christ died for the sin of the world, so sin must die out in me, not be curbed or suppressed or counteracted, but crucified. No one can bring anyone else to this decision. We may be earnestly convinced, and religiously convinced, but what we need to do is to come to the decision which Paul forces here." (Oswald Chambers)

   Sin must die out in me, not be curbed or counteracted, or suppressed. I can recognize sin, before it happens or after, but I try to suppress it. I try to not let it happen in my life, but I also realize that I can and will sin. Perhaps this attitude of "all Christians do sin", is a deterrent to actually dying to sin in my life.

   Am I actually too accepting of sin in my life? This is a rhetorical question, because I know that I am. I don't like it, and I am ashamed of it, but I do accept it as a normal part of me.

   Chambers says "Haul yourself up, take a time alone with God, make the moral decision and say - "Lord, identify me with Thy death until I know that sin is dead in me." Make the moral decision that sin in you must be put to death.'

   Could I actually do that?

   Not on my own, that is for sure. I need supernatural help.