Category: Devotions

Scripture: Romans 8:14–17 Reflection:Paul begins with a staggering claim: everyone led by God’s Spirit is a child of God, not a servant kept at arm’s length but a son or daughter welcomed all the way into the family. The Spirit doesn’t make us cower before God like frightened slaves; the Spirit lets us cry out […]

Scripture: Romans 8:3-4“For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not […]

Scripture: Romans 8:1-2“Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.” ReflectionAfter all the honest wrestling in chapter 7, Paul lands here: no condemnation. Not “less condemnation” or […]

Scripture: Romans 7:24-25“Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!” ReflectionPaul’s cry of “Wretched man that I am!” isn’t the end of the story — it’s the hinge on which the whole passage turns. The question “Who will […]

Scripture: Romans 7:21-23“I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making […]