My photograph above of the slippers on the sand rather reminds me in a roundabout way of that poem several years ago "Footprints in the Sand". Also, we as true believers in Jesus as the Savior should endeavor to always walk as He walked. He was perfect, we are not! Until we are in glory with Him, we will remain imperfect in this world. Yet spiritually, those who are born again are "clean and pure" in God's sight because He sees us through the redeeming work of Jesus; our spiritual rebirth.
Pastor Chuck Smith (the founder of Calvary Chapel Churches) says that a man is one of two categories: either a servant of sin or a servant of God.
Here is a wonderful sermon by Pastor Smith on Romans chapters 5 and 6. It is about an hour and 19 minutes in length, but you will find it so engrossing that the length of it is of no regard to you.
"Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord." - Romans 6:11
"For sin shall not have dominion over over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace." - Romans 6:14
Based on Adam Clarke's Commentary on Romans 6:14, it basically means that God and your salvation (in which you were indwelt with the Holy Spirit by your belief in Jesus as the Savior) ....God and the Holy Spirit guard you from habitually sinning; although we do at times miss the mark, as Pastor Chuck discusses in the above sermon. "True believers are under the merciful dispensation of the Gospel; in the death of Christ, God has provided pardon for all that is past, and grace to help in every time of need."
I pray that you will take the time to watch the entire sermon above by Pastor Chuck Smith. He mentions in his sermon the following hymn, "Take My Life And Let it Be", here sung by Chris Tomlin:
If you have not been saved by belief in Jesus as the Savior and by belief that His shed blood at Calvary can wash your sins away because of his sacrificial death as the Lamb of God, and because He paid our sin debt in full - took our place - and died so that we may have eternal life; then please prayerfully consider the following Scriptures:
"He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him." - John 3:36
"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me." - John 14:6
"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." - John 3:16
Have a blessed and Christ centered weekend - and life!!
