The symptoms of sin

The Symptoms of Sin

Rom 7: 23-25 but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. 24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin

The symptoms of sin

For friends reading the devotion, this week I am trying to deal with the power of the mind and how to breakthrough one of the toughest area in our life. Someone once said “As a Man thinks, so is He.” – aptly put, we are who we are is all how we think, what we think. Once sin is conceived in the mind or we chose to disobey God. Death comes into our spiritual life The bible says in Romans 6:23 - For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Why can someone breakthrough and give their life totally to God, while some people constantly struggle? Why some people can cry when they worship, while others stand there like a rock? Everything conceived comes first from the mind… ask David… when he saw Bathsheba bathing… everything is conceived in the mind…Jame1:14but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed. 15Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death… If you have committed sin .. in your life.. which I am sure many of us have.. how many times we think of it, dwell on it , then acted on it ? Ask people who have committed adultery, cheated in exam or in business, gone on Internet sites we are not suppose to go.… its is always a premeditated act…. It doesn’t happen all of a sudden… somewhere in their mind.. they lowered their guard, thought of it, dwell on the idea and then acted on it.

Someone told me that they love God but cannot obey some of the teachings because it is too hard… actually it is never too hard.. Romans 8:7 -the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. I think my friend was right… the sinful mind is often hostile to God, it will never obey God

SO THE BIG QUESTION ---- HOW IN THE WORLD DO I KNOW WHAT I AM DOING OR THINKING IS SIN…. OK HERE IS THE KEY
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hen we commit a sin or have unconfessed sin before God. There will always be certain reaction we can see physically.

1. Disinterest in coming to church or fellowship – when you start to not enjoy coming to church or fellowship, or be in presence of God… you know that something somewhere is wrong. When adam and eve sinned… they hid when they heard God walking in the garden
(Gen 1)

2. Inability to do devotion with God – People who are dwelling on things not godly or is sinning or have unconfessed sin, will never want to do devotion. If you find yourself starting to not want to do devotion. Or someone you know struggling .. many times..there is something that is bothering them to come before God.

3. Do not want to see Godly people – I have seen many times in my years as a Christian, people who are sinning or have unconfessed sin or know that something is not right in their life… often shy away from godly people. They often cannot communicate with Godly people especially leaders. Are you like that ? Because like the saying goes… birds of a feather flock together… darkness and light cannot come together.

4. Physical symptoms starts to appear due to stress – Emotional and physical symptoms start to appear…. Loss or gain of appetite, inability to make decision, tiredness, sickness start to appear – pain, cramps. ( Google – Symptoms of stress ) and you will find some interesting side effect… This is because even though we can lie to the world we cannot lie to our body.. when our mind is battling – when your good conscience is battling the sinful side… stress starts to appear. And symptoms appear.

In conclusion

I hope we can do our own spiritual medical prognosis and ask ourselves some tough questions about our life. If you find symptom like these 4 mentioned above in your life.. maybe its time to come before God and make confession to Him. Don’t let you spiritual die, keep watch over it.