Sin Revelations.

Yesterday I was sitting at work waiting for customers to come in, so I decided to read my bible. I ended up in Romans, which I think is my favorite book right now. It seems like almost everything in it speaks to me. Any who, I was reading Romans 6:1, but then when I got to Romans 6:6, Jesus gave me a craazy revelation. I quickly crabbed a piece of copy paper, so here is what ended up spilling out of the tip of my pen. "Romans 6:6-10 -- For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin-because anyone who has died has been freed from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. Much like Jesus died to rid the world of sin, we died to rid our world of sin. This doesn't make us Christ's equal by any means, but the symbolism in this piece of scripture is difficult to ignore. When we give ourselves to God, our old self dies. Our past sins are erased, and we are born again now that He has forgiven us. Jesus died for our sins, and was born again. Much like Jesus couldn't be touched by death again, when we are born again, or "saved", you do not have to fear. For God is now for you, who can be against you?-such as sin. Before you were saved, think of how you felt in comparison to now. I know I for one felt dead. 'Death no longer has mastery over him.' Death, sin, has no control over us anymore. I know it is really difficult to worry and wonder if the past will repeat itself. Sure, you will be tempted, that's the enemy's job, isn't it? But it is God's job to protect and arm us with the ammunition to fire right back at him and say, 'No. I have been saved by my Father, by God in Heaven. He breathed life back into me. Guess what, that sin, that old bondage, it carries no value or weight next to what God has given me.' 'The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.' That means every word we say, every action we do, everything in our life should reflect our savior and bring glory to him. Why shouldn't it? If someone delivered you of all that garbage, and loved you throughout all of your delinquent days, how could you not want to devote your life to them? See, God doesn't care about what you've done. Drugs, sex, abuse, you name it-he doesn't keep record. He loves you the same, no matter what you have done. No matter how much you've cursed His name and spit in His son's direction. I know, because I was that person. I may as well have been the one physically nailing Jesus to the cross. The day I was saved, earlier in the evening I had purchased a Satanic bible. Guess what? God doesn't care. He saw me and said, 'That is my daughter and I love her.' I ran to him with tears and pieces of the person I was and you know what he did? He stood there with arms wide open ready to catch me and stitch me back together like and father should do. For some people, they don't know what that is like because they've never had an earthly father do something so loving for them. I can tell you right now, no matter how great or bad your earthly father was, God is different. The bottom line is, God loves you unconditionally, something else that many people have no clue how it feels. I know I didn't truly know what it meant to love unconditionally before I came to know God's love. God will continue to love and pursue you no matter what. All you have to do is let him in. Let him in and I promise you, you will want to live for him."