Monday Morning Perspective

As we continued through 1John yesterday, we keyed in on verses 4-10 of chapter 3.   Although it was a message on sin, it was encouraging as we saw that we can have victory thanks to the cross.  I loved the visual Eddie gave of thinking of our sin as the garbage in our life and just as a garbage truck comes and hauls away our trash never to be dealt with again, Jesus hauls off our sin as far as the east is from the west.  How encouraging is that?!  I'm so glad that he pointed out the fact that even though we still sin, it should be less often and we should be much less comfortable in it as we grow more and more in our relationship with Christ.  No true follower of Christ is comfortable in their sin.  We may lapse into it where an unbeliever may leap into it but we are never ok with it.  Because of our conversion we have the power of the Spirit within us and with that superior power we can walk in  victory over sin.  Realizing that as believers when we sin that we break God's heart, we should be motivated by our love for Him to repent quickly when we do.