Power over Sin Romans 6:1,2,14

Sept 6 Power over Sin  Romans 6:1,2,14
"What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? By no means, How can we who died to sin still live in it? For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace."

We told our children and now tell our grandbabies, that they can not do any thing to make us stop loving them.  But they can make us lose trust and not allow us to do things for them  or with  them or take them to special  places.

We want for the kids to behave  even when we are not with them.  We want for them to learn to make good decisions and to do what they know they should  do out of love and not fear.

God is a much better parent than we can ever hope to be.  He wants for us to live under grace and not rules. There  are 10 commandments and man made 1000's of laws from them.  Jesus summed up the entire law with these verses in Matthew.  Thou shall Love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your  mind... your neighbor as yourself.

By the way ,God wants us to stay away from sin  because He loves us and wants to shield us from the consequences of sin.  He knows they rest of the story and wants what is best for us.

Pray that the younger ones will fall so in Love with the Lord that they will obey Him out of their love for  our Heavenly Father.  Not a bad idea for us older folks either.