JADDOG

This morning Romans 7 was taught. Something clicked that has never clicked before. I have always known the truth that Christ died in our place to pay the price for our sins. Romans 7 takes it a step deeper by defining our unsaved state as a marriage to sin that is unbound only by death. In the previous chapter Paul give us two options for who our master is. We are a slave to sin or a slave to righteousness. Our master is satan or our master is God. We obey sin or we obey righteousness.  There are only two options. To put this in romans 7 terminology, we are married to sin or we are married to righteousness. The covenant that binds us on earth when we vow to another in marriage is “until death do us part”. The man or the woman has to die for the covenant to be lifted and allow the other to marry again. In this same way our marriage to sin could only be lifted by death. Romans 6 teaches us that being baptized into Christ we are baptized into his death. Christ’s death is the only death that can free us from our marriage to sin. Being united in His death we are also united with Him in his resurrection. We are born again and our birth is a new life of service to the one that lifted our marriage to sin. Now we are married to righteousness. Now we are a slave to righteousness. To be baptized into Christ’s death that sets you free from sin you must trust Christ as your saviour. To trust Christ as you saviour is to follow a new heart that God gives you. A heart that desires to glorify Him and not this world.

I arrived at my sister’s house this morning where my dad was trying to print off tickets on her laptop that he had purchased online for the Biltmore Estate. We were all on our way to visit the estate together as soon as the tickets were printed. My sister’s laptop runs Vista. They had successfully purchased the tickets but everytime they tried to print the tickets Vista would lockup and have to be power cycled in a not so graceful manner. I grabbed my laptop out of my car booted and connected to the internet. Nothing new here, Fedora 9 is good at that. We plugged in her usb printer and dad connected to his webmail. He pulled up the first ticket and just as I was about to reach over and run the add printer function, a notification window popped off my notifications bar. Fedora had recognized the printer, set it up and was asking if we had additional software to install. Dad hit the print button on the browser and out came the first ticket. Kudos to Fedora for avoiding further frustration and saving the day.

I’ve been MIA for a while. Just finished updating wordpress. Added a post notification plugin, you can subscribe in my pages list. Also linked myself into Google Analytics. Hope to get back on track with my initial intent with this blog. I have a couple pending drafts I’ll have to finish up and post.

This evening I attended our church’s home group. A perspective was shared on the results of last night’s election that I had neglected to to see. A perspective that comforted me. God has sovereignly planned to have Barack Obama as president elect. There is purpose in electing a man who’s views in many ways oppose Christian moral. In Matthew 6 we are taught not to worry about basic necessities for living. 6:34 teaches us not to worry about tomorrow. Tonight I was reminded that God is in control and there is no reason that we should worry that Obama is out president elect. Instead I propose that we should seek how God is bringing himself glory in a situation that we disagree with. I propose that we find the places God has place before us to be obedient to His calling and present him with the praise he has called us to offer.