Sin Using Good

Today’s reading: Romans 7:1-13

“Sin used what was good to bring about my condemnation.” - Romans 7:13

This first section in Romans 7 is one that our present culture needs to take in. Paul shares what role the Old Testament law played in the lives of the earliest Christians. It was (and is) a revealer of our state.

This is how the cycle has played as we take a glance at history:

Desires >> Deeds >> Death

A realization of sin is what it is going to help us start seeing our deep need for the forgiveness that only Jesus can give.

The law is a revealer, and Jesus is the redeemer.

Verse 14 shows us the method our enemy (the Devil) has been using against us since he first deceived Adam and Eve in Eden. Sin always twists the good for its evil purposes.

H.D.M. Spence said it well, “...its awakening of the sense of sin, and of a craving for redemption from it, was the necessary preparation for such redemption.”

God, would you use us to carry your redemption to those you’ve placed in our paths? May we not shrink back!