Thoughts for another day

March 13, 2013.

Today's verse: Rom. 8:3. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and to deal with sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, (NRSV – copyright ack.)

(Pls. read the above before you read further.  Thanks)

I’ve read this verse many times and even dwelt on it in teaching people in the Bible class, but this time when I looked at it, God’s Spirit opened my eyes to a slightly new dimension which, without God’s enlightening Grace is difficult to conceive.   What we will see in this reflection is but a wee bit of the whole wisdom of God and how the law which God created to keep man from wrong yet, gave rise to sin through the knowledge of sin which came from it.  Sinful flesh charged up to the law for in it, sin took the opportunity to deceive us and by it slew us…Ro. 7:11. 

The law is spiritual but the flesh is sinful because in it dwells nothing good and is the route by which we’re in rebellion with God and sin takes advantage of this by bearing fruit unto death.   We know flesh avails nothing except slavery to the one by whom sin was caused.  Therefore, by our minds, we want to do God’s will but our flesh, is in mutiny to Him.  Sometimes we don’t understand why we sin, but we do, and then we feel miserable before God.  I’m sure we all find ourselves in that situation;  even Paul, the great saint of God, laments sinful flesh, calling it ‘body of death’ Rom. 7:24. 

But God, whose wisdom far exceeds the bounds of man’s ability to imagine, had a plan and through that plan, He sent His Precious Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to rebel against sin and the carnal DNA of man.  He lived without sin, making a mockery of it in the flesh.  In His death on the Cross, he made an end to the hegemony of sin on the flesh of man and by His Resurrection, made possible the raising of the corrupt and sinful flesh of man into the incorruptible flesh of man.  What a glorious future we have to be able to live in an incorruptible body and be with Him all our lives.