DAY 12

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts. - Romans 13:14.

When I was in the sixth grade I had been doing fine back in the back of the classroom. All of that came to an end one day when Mr. McCall looked back at me and wanted me to answer a question he had written on the blackboard. It wasn’t that I didn’t know the answer. It was just that I couldn’t see the words he had written. I was suddenly transported to the front row for the rest of the year and soon I had those dreaded things called, glasses. The law of nearsightedness had disrupted my life and learning experience.

Thank God, another law overcame the law of nearsightedness in my life. The law of corrective lenses overcame it. You would think that I would have more freedom to live life without being hindered by glasses. After all you have to keep them clean, wear them, and it is very hard to swim in them unless you wear goggles. Actually, I am truly free to live my physical life only if I wear those glasses. When I am wearing my glasses I am free to drive, to read, to see faces clearly and so many other things that would not be possible without them.

In our spiritual lives we are overcome and held captive by sin. But just as glasses are able to overcome nearsightedness so can sin be overcome. To overcome sin we must put on the Lord Jesus Christ. When we do that we are still slaves. Instead of being slaves to sin we have become slaves of righteousness. Jesus says, “My yoke is easy and My burden is light (Matthew 11:30).” The yoke of Jesus cancels out and overcomes the sin in our lives. By taking on the yoke of Jesus we can be free to live life to its utmost.

Each day we have a choice. We can choose to put on the Lord Jesus Christ or we can make provision for sin. We can choose life, or we can choose death (Romans 8:5-6).