Scriptural Text:
"What about me? Have I been faithful? Well, it matters very little what you or anyone else thinks. I don't even trust my own judgment on this point. (4) My conscience is clear, but that isn't what matters. It is the Lord himself who will examine me and decide". 1Co 4:3-4 NLT
Considerations for today:
A consciousness is an awareness. Righteousness consciousness is the awareness that one has been made right by God before God and before everything and everybody else. It is that consciousness that there is no charge anymore against one before the Almighty God and this acquittal discharges one from every other court, judgement or ruling in heaven or earth on beneath the earth. It is awareness that there is nothing against me anymore anywhere.
This awareness instructs me to keep sin at bay. It tells me that sin does not have dominion over me anymore so I cannot just subject myself to it again. On this point we can make an illustration. Imagine that today I wear an immaculately white designer garment. In the consciousness of my wearing this garment when I am offered a seat I will first check whether it is clean or not. I will be careful where I go and what I do because I do not want stains on my designer white garment. So also is righteousness. Because I have become righteous when I see sin, I say too it: “People like me don’t do things like that”
Having been set free by believing we go on to live in the consciousness of this freedom. What we do on a daily basis is this: we perfect holiness in the fear of God (2Co 7:1). We do not yield any member of our body as slaves to sin again. It is the righteous man that has the power to overcome sin. This is the liberty of the Sons of God. Having been set free from the corruption that entered into the world through lust we manifest the very quality of the life of God right here on Earth.
Meditation scripture: Rom 6:1-14
Prayer: My Father I thank you because I have become your righteousness in Christ Jesus. I live in the consciousness of the righteousness and I declare today that sin does not have dominion over me. I do not yield any member of my body to it anymore. I have been set free from sin and I am free indeed too serve my God. Halleluyah!
Bible in 1 year: Mark 5 – 8
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