Thursday | Romans 8:1-4

Romans 8:1-4

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. 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 for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 

Paul describes a truth so beautiful that it should lead us to worship Christ at this moment and that is that there is “no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” This reality tells us a few things as we observe this season of Lent. 

To begin, it tells us that the work of God for us in Christ where He reconciles us to the Father has been fully complete and accomplished and there is nothing we can do to take away or add to it. The season of Lent as an opportunity does not intensify our spirituality, but reminds us of Jesus' work for us. 

Secondly, if we belong to Jesus, we have the promise and abiding of the Holy Spirit in us who does a work in and through us; guiding, teaching, and convicting us of sin so that we might fix our eyes upon Jesus. 

Finally, as a result of the work of Jesus for us, my encouragement to you would be to slow things down today (if you haven’t already) and continue to untangle habits and our preoccupied minds. The goal of this week is to engage matters of the heart as they pertain to our fellowship with God himself. 

Begin today with the question: what have you learned about God and yourself in the last few days?