Song of the Day- 15

I was blessed to be born to, and raised by, Christian parents. They worked hard to teach my siblings and me right from wrong. They sacrificed in every area of their lives to do what they believed was best for us. And I embraced their faith as my own from a very early age. God in His grace preserved me from so many kinds of sin. And I am thankful. But it is so easy for that thankfulness to turn into arrogance. To think, "Well, I've never done THAT."

Do you know, Christian, that every variety of sin is equally detrimental to your soul? Do you really believe that every sin deserves the wrath of God? Every. Single. Sin. Do you realize that any time you are delivered from any kind of temptation or sin, it is a miraculous event? Each and every time you choose to obey God in faith, it is chipping away at your sin nature. And changing a nature is a miracle! Which reminded me of this song that I learned when I was very young. =)

I Know What Jesus Did For Me

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience-- among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ--by grace you have been saved-- and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 2:1-10
 
For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
Romans 6:14-18