{My Declaration}
Having been caught in the snares of the supernatural strikes
against my soul, I am left no choice but to make a desperate declaration of
independence from the sin that suffocates me. Since birth I have been in
bondage to a darkness not of this world that has invaded the ill-guarded
territory of my heart. I refuse to be a slave any longer to this insatiable
master of sin. I not only declare, but demand my independence.
I proclaim that my life will be a declaration of the
promises straight from the mouth of the one who embodies Truth. His life giving
words will be etched into my heart so that the unwavering truth of my freedom
will be self-evident to every fiber of my being. No longer will I be pressed
under the heavy thumb of an all-consuming darkness; rather I will be wrapped in
the life-giving light that is my Savior and Creator. My identity will never
again be broken, forgotten, insufficient, and unloved. The identity to which
I've been entitled under the authority of grace is redeemed, beloved, restored
and set apart.
Daily sin has beleaguered me in a relentless pursuit. Until this
day of my declaration, sin has severed the relationship with Christ I was
destined to obtain. Sin unswervingly served as the opaque veil that stood
between my savior and me over the course of my life. The remedy prescribed
since the beginning of time has been the sacrifice of perfect blood to atone
for the wrongs to which I've been enslaved . But my blood runs thick with impurities
that invalidate the sufficiency of any sacrifice I could offer. God looked at
me in my broken and tainted condition and had compassion on my heart which He
fearfully and wonderfully formed. Deeply loving me and the rest of the sin
enslaved world, He sacrificed the only person whose blood could ever rightfully
atone for sin: His son. The formula for the remedy to my seemingly incurable
maladies was God in flesh sacrificed on the altar of a rugged cross. He paid
the price I deserved to pay for my sins and bled the blood that was I supposed
to bleed. And he was resurrected to life so that I might walk in newness of
life with Him, free from the snare of sin. His remedy is purely and simply
grace. And He offers it to anyone who would receive it.
The grave could not
hold Him and death itself could stop Him. And He has set me free that I might
proclaim these grievances against sin so that it would no longer serve as my feeble
crutch but rather so my dependency would lie solely in Christ.
Sin sucked the marrow from my bones and made me void of any
true life.
Sin bound me tightly in chains that wore calluses on my
soul.
Sin made me feel as worthless as the dust from which I was
created and to which I will return.
Sin stripped me of my God ordained identity and eroded me to
the core.
Sin robbed me of every ounce of self worth until I was no
longer a diadem in the hand of the King but rather the remains of useless
ashes.
I have pursued every mean of action to rid myself of the
effects of these grievances listed. I have performed every good deed, I have
worked myself till exhaustion and explored every logical method in the world. I
pushed myself into the ground trying to earn my own salvation, and I was never
enough. Everything I did only amounted to a pile of ash and a desperate, empty
heart. In my moment of desperation, there was only one thing left to do: to
receive the grace that is more than enough to sustain me and redeem me from the
pit. No longer am I caught in a vicious cycle of aimlessly attempting to save
myself. I declare that I am free from sin and that darkness has no power over
me. My independence from sin also serves as my declaration of complete
dependence on my Savior. I will walk the straight and level path paved for me
by Christ, and rejoice unfettered by any malicious maladies.
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