“But now being made free from sin, and
become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end
everlasting life.” – Romans 6:22
There cannot be, nor has there ever been, a creation that can
rightly glory in itself. “Shall the
thing formed say to him that formed it, why hast thou made me thus?”(Romans
9:20). You cannot lay a bunch of paint
in front of a canvas and expect to come back and see a painting. You cannot pile some lumber on a piece of
land and expect in a couple months and find a house. There must be a painter, there has to be a
master builder, every creation great or small, has a creator; and every
creation that is made was not made by the thing that was made.
When you stop and think
about it; whether or not you believe in creation has about as much bearing on
your salvation as whether or not you believe in Jesus. If you do not believe that God created all
things, then it is likely that you do not believe that he created man either;
and if you do not believe that he created man than it is likely that you do not
believe that Jesus is the Son of God. If
that is true, then there is no judgment or reason to seek salvation. In effect, you are a house that was built
with no builder, or pot that was formed by no potter; and because there is no
creator, there is no law, no rules, and no reason to concern yourself with
anything other than the now. It brings
the mentality of “I have not been given life; I simply have life.” This ideal that we have chanced upon 80
something years of breathing on this earth and we can do with it what we choose
finds it roots in the lack of believing that the creation has a creator. This will certainly produce a life of sin and
destruction. One of the greatest lies
Satan tells people is that we have to do it.
“You have to do better, you have to be stronger; you’re a sinner because
you can’t get your act together.” He
will just beat you up, and beat you up, until the whole notion of salvation
seems impossible (and hearing the same thing every Sunday from the pulpit
doesn’t help much either). However,
Jesus said GREATER! “Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the
world.” I will be frank, there is a vein
of truth in Satan’s lie, you cannot will or work your way out of sin, but that
does not mean that you cannot get out of it at all. There is deliverance and it is found when you
accept that you were created by an omnipotent God. You were made in his likeness and in his
image; and you were given life. Every
day on this earth is a gift from God and it is by his grace you remain.
If you believe that God made you than you will agree with me
when I say that without his grace you would be dead. It is by his might and strength that we
“live, move, and have our being.” It is
God’s power and might that holds back the destruction that could come and by
his divine wisdom that he has given unto us all things in order to exist on
this planet. He is the one that gives
frail humanity a fighting chance. The
same is true in a spiritual sense. If we
try and fight against the devil and war against the sin in our life you are
going to fail; but when you give it all over to God and admit that he is going
to have to make you a new creature in Christ Jesus (spiritualty speaking), only
then can you live free from sin. When
God makes within you a new man of righteousness, then and only then, can you
live free from the world of sin. You
cannot create this within yourself, it has to be created in you. You have to be “made free from sin.” We did not make the universe, we did not make
the earth, and we certainly did not make ourselves, by God’s grace I am what I
am. God made all things, and he can make
in you all things new! Stop and look at
the majesty of his creation and then ask yourself: “if God created all that, do
I really believe that he cannot make in me a salvation that delivers from sin?”
