Nov. 3/18 - - I John 3:5-6 - - Who can tame sin?

And you know that Jesus came to take away our sins, and there is no sin in Him. Anyone who continues to live in Him will not sin. But anyone who keeps on sinning does not know Him or understand Who He Is.

I John 3:5-6

I have read of a young lion that could only be awed or kept down by the eye of his keeper. With the keeper anyone could come near the lion, and he would crouch--his savage nature still unchanged, thirsting for blood--trembling at the keeper's feet. You might even put your foot on his neck so long as this keeper was with you. But to approach him without the keeper would be instant death.

In the same way, we can have sin and yet not practice sin. The evil nature, the flesh, is unchanged in its rebellion against God, but the abiding presence of Jesus keeps it under control. In faith the believer can entrust himself to the keeping, the indwelling, of the Son of God; as he abides in Him, he can count on Jesus to be there for him.

~Andrew Murray

O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? I thank God--through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin--and through the power of the Spirit of Jesus living in me, my Keeper subdues the power of the law of sin. Blessed be the Name of Jesus. Amen.