What Dominates Your Life?

Luke 17:21, "...For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you."

Romans 6:14, "For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace."

I think I'm finally starting to get it. It's taken quite a while but I'm starting to understand the importance of childlike faith. This type of faith happens when we abandon our reasoning and fully believe God's Word. And this faith is more than simply being able to quote a verse but actually translates the verse into our lives.

Jesus told His followers in Luke 17 that the kingdom of God was within them. Their present reality was to be living in the kingdom of God - living out what Jesus had placed within them. His Kingdom = His Rules, His Authority, and His Reality.

Paul taught the Roman believers that sin no longer had dominion over their lives because they were not under the law but under grace. Here's where the childlike faith must come into practice. We need to LEARN what it means to live under grace. The reason why sin dominates those under law is because in our own strength we cannot overcome the inability of the flesh. Grace, however, enables us to live in dominion rather under dominion.

What dominates your life? Have you tapped into the kingdom of God that is within? Are you learning what it means to overcome sin or does sin still dominate you? Most of us have been brought up in a faith that teaches that we will never stop sinning. Because we live in a sin cursed world and because we live in flesh, we are too weak. But the Bible teaches us that SIN shall not have dominion over us. How can this be? Through the ability of God's grace. It is the kingdom of God in you - at work for you - that makes the difference. This is what grace is all about. God didn't save man so that He could forgive him but that man would now have the ability through grace to overcome that which had dominated him for centuries.

Through Jesus' death on the cross the curse has been broken. You are no longer under sin because you are no longer under the law. You live under a new covenant that is dominated by grace and gives you the ability of grace to live out what God has placed within. We must lose the mindset that says we must be strong FOR the Lord and take on the mindset that says we must be strong IN the Lord.

I pray this is an encouragement to you today. I hope that we can all begin to see that grace is so much stronger than sin. When we do, we will enjoy a greater quality of life...a God quality!