“For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.”

[Romans 6:14]

 

Have you taken charge over life? Have you recognized from whence flows your authority? Do you realize how much God has given you? Do you use His power or your own to guide your way?

 

The longer I’m in the Kingdom of God, the more often I realize that my answers to these seemingly simple questions have been wrong. Dare I even say selfish? It’s so easy to draw my own solution to my problems, not to mention those faced by others. Our enemy wants us to think we can run the show. This type of thinking started in Garden. Nothing has changed. 

 

Truly listening to God’s guidance requires concentration, discipline, obedience, sensitivity, and lots of practice. Far more than just reading scripture, praying or worshipping, until we grasp the fundamental truth of where we stand with our Heavenly Father, we habitually come up with our own plans. We decide we know what’s best and charge right in. 

 

Ask yourself, “How can the church be pulled in so many directions if we’re all doing God’s will?” Thinking that we can figure the right way to get things accomplished, or determining that God must be guiding us because we haven’t heard Him say, “Stop!”, does far more to separate us than to bring us together. 

 

We have unwittingly given sin dominion over most of our lives. And sadly, we seldom do much to stop it. Going to church on Sunday is a great first step, but there’s a journey that must follow on its heels. This is especially true if we are learning about historical laws, as opposed to what the Spirit is saying to the church.

 

Grace is given to us to protect us from ourselves and from our proclivity to sin. Without this grace we would self-destruct. Just because the law can no longer judge you, don’t take advantage of God’s grace and forgiveness. That path describes people without the fear of God. 

 

To understand God is to understand His Dominion. He is fully in charge. Not 90%. Not just on Sunday or midweek Bible study. Our God is King over ALL creation. He “who holds your breath in His hand and owns all your ways” [Daniel 5:23]. To confirm this, He sent His only begotten Son. He sent a Heavenly King to an earthly environment. He sent His Best. His Firstfruit. His Family. His Own Flesh and Blood. 

 

Do you think about Yeshua this way? Is He truly The Lord over your life? Does He have absolute, unquestionable dominion in ALL things? 

 

Stop. Look. Listen. Wait on the Lord. Seek first the Kingdom of God. He wrote the Book.