Playing in the park of sin and serving a holy God

Romans 6:19 - I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

Chapter six of Romans talks about sanctification and that there should be a change in our lives after being saved.

We, our bodies are instruments. We serve either sin, or we serve the Lord. By our nature, we serve sin. We were born in sin, live in sin, and were dead in sin, slaves of sin. For this reason, God sent his Son Jesus to live a life without sin, pay our debt, die for us and rise from the dead giving us the victory of eternal life. When we decide to accept this and receive the gift of God, we automatically are made children of God.

Being a child of God does not mean we are free from sinning. We are free from the debt of sin, and God gives us the strength to resist and not sin. But I repeat: we are not free from sinning, in other words, it is possible for us to still sin. We SHOULD NOT sin, but because of our humanity we fall and sin.

This verse that we have read tells us that in the same way that we yield ourselves to serve sin; we should yield ourselves unto righteousness. Doing the wrong comes so naturally to us. I do not want it to be that way. I want DOING RIGHT to come naturally to me.

But how can I do right with this body and this mind that has so long served sin? I will give you an illustration: Imagine that you are outside playing in the park. You run from place to place, you swing, you slide down the slide…you have fun. It starts to rain and with the rain come puddles. Even better! You jump in the puddles, you get wet, you get dirty and enjoy. Then, you enter the kitchen to help Mom with the food. But you are full of dirt, sweat and you stink. How do you think you are going to help in the kitchen?

This is a representation of us. We go out, play in the park of sin. We run from one sin to another, we swing on the swing of disobedience, we slide down the slide of lies, we jump in the puddles of bad thoughts and we end up dirty and smelling bad. Then we want to enter into the presence of our holy God and do right. How do you think you are going to do right?

Even though we sin, God loves us and always forgives. But we need to decide who we are going to serve. Luke 16:13 – “No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” Or we serve God, or we serve sin. When we serve God, we cannot come dirty and full of the world, we need to sanctify ourselves. We should yield our bodies, minds and abilities to the Lord so that He can sanctify them so that we can be clean instruments, appropriate and worthy for the service of the Lord. When the Lord cleans you, do not return to the park of the world. Do not go back to getting dirty with sin. Each day go back to Christ and ask Him to sanctify you and make you holy so that He can use you.