Done with Sin

You're never done with sin until you fully realize the cost it brings you. And you don't know the cost until you've tasted the goodness of The Lord. That's what I think Peter is trying to convey here:

Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God. (1 Peter 4:1, 2 ESV)

The cost of sin is deterioration and demise.  Suffering comes standard.

Some effects take a long time to realize, like the smoker who "gets away with it" for 20 years.

Other costs are quick and painful. Like the adulterer who must say goodbye to his happy home and children.

There is a cost of sin, always, no matter who we are.  

Consider the evolving effects of sin from the fall of man.  Adam lived centuries, Abraham lived one century, by the time of Jesus men were lucky to hit 50. 

Sin erodes us away the sustaining power of Gods Word.  Hebrews says, "He upholds the universe by the word of his power." Hebrews 1:3.  Apart from Jesus, the Word of God we can do nothing.  It is the word of God that upholds all we are and brings healing to our bones.  

Sin is trusting another's word, another's advice, another's pattern for life.  And there is always a cost.

Amazingly, God recreated through the very thing Adam and Eve abandoned in the Garden of Eden, through the Word of God made flesh and broken in death.  The Word incarnate offered as atonement to bring back together man and God once more.  This is why we must be done with sin.  We must disdain its effects and short lived pleasures, we cannot chose willfully to continue if in deed we understand what brings life and what takes it away.

So let the suffering happen as a reminder, you aren't formed for sin.  You are formed for God.n you a formed for fellowship with the Word He gives.  And in this we shall live, as we let His Word abide in our hearts.

This is my comfort in my affliction, For Your word has given me life. (Psalms 119:50 NKJV)

PRAYER:

Father thank you for this reminder. I want to live in the righteousness that you have for me in Christ alone. I hunger for it I thirst for ask you for it.  Re-create me through the power of your sustaining word, in Jesus name, amen.