'If we hate that sin, we know that sin is not of us'.

Could it be that if we can not identify sin, error, that we can not hate that sin? And, if we are not hating that sin, than it is, indeed, of us: it is truly what we are? I say, sin is error, but more exactly, is not sin, 'missing the mark', and who is that mark, but Jesus Christ? Who is that mark, but God? Knowing not God, means not understanding how we would miss the mark.

If man's ways were God's ways, then we would not miss that mark. But man's ways are not God's ways and 'as the Heavens are higher than the earth, so are God's ways higher than man's ways'.

But we can walk in the Way, for we have the Way, the Spirit of Jesus, the Spirit of God, living within us. He is the Way, our life, and in our living we are going the Way. In our death, we are not going the Way, but our death will be taken away forever, just as Jesus rose from the grave to live forevermore, as He is from everlasting to everlasting: taking on the body of our death, He crucifed death and sin to His body, 'so that He might be supreme in all things'.

This same crucifixtion we conform to through the Spirit, suffering now, while we yet live in a world of death. We know that this life is true and everlasting, for true life is everlasting, without beginning or end, being first over all things, as well as last over all things.

If we know God, then we know when we do not make the mark. We are not already complete, but we stumble and get up, 'forgetting the past and moving forward to the goal in Christ Jesus'.

That sin which we do not hate, is that sin which has overcome us. God, who teaches us all things, will show us which sin we should hate, if not soon, now, then by Judgement Day, when we shall all 'go through the fire to see what stands'.

So, it is good to seek to know God, and run the race, day and night. For sin must be hated, so that we might know it is not of us. Yet, sin is always with us, well, so too can our hatred of that sin. Those who are not hating their own sin show that that sin has overcome them, and replaced their soul: that death is not life.

We give up our lives, laying it down, properly, and our souls ever remain. In fact, abundant life is given.

Email: Drew