Ps. 19:13 Keep me from deliberate sins! Don’t let them control me.
Then I will be free of guilt and innocent of great sin.
Is this your constant
prayer? It should be. We do sin; it’s a fact of life we can’t deny or escape
from it. We can minimize some of our sinning, by not deliberately doing it. We
can stop the process before we act on our desires. We can say no to tempting
thoughts and deeds. We don’t have to participate in sinful activities. The Lord
gives us His Spirit to empower us so that we can resist Satan’s temptations. We
have the Word to ward off Satan’s assaults. We have a great cloud of witnesses
who have gone on before us and surround us who have not done what we desire to
do. We can control our desires to sin if we draw from the resources of God. We
deliberately sin because we want to, not because we have to. We do it because
we value the momentary pleasure more and give no regard to the eternal
consequences.
When we live in victory over willful sinning, we have peace with
God. We are not plagued with the guilt and shame of knowing we have sinned
against Him. There is no condemnation for those who live in Christ because they
desire to do what pleases Him rather than themselves. They do not want to sin
because they know how much it hurts Him. They love Him too much to purposely
spurn and spite Him by defying His commandments to live righteously before Him.
Do you love the Lord enough today to pray this prayer? “Keep me
from deliberate sins! Don’t let them control me.”? May it be so. May it be so.
“Lord, I pray for all who read this devotional today that they
will pray this prayer from their heart. In Jesus’ name. Amen.”
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