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Romans 8:9-10 NLT
[9] But you are not controlled by your sinful nature. 

So in us who are followers of Jesus, something is different. That part of us that takes us away from God, away from the fully aliveness that he has for us is still there, but it's not in charge.

[9] You are controlled by the Spirit if you have the Spirit of God living in you.

This is quite a thing for Paul to say! The Spirit of God lives in you!
Lives in me!
Not sure about you but the challenges come up in me to this - even though I think and do and say things that don't align to the Spirit of God living in me?

 [10] And Christ lives within you, so even though your body will die because of sin, the Spirit gives you life because you have been made right with God. 
Romans 8:9-10 NLT

So even though we're not perfect, Life in the Spirit happens because we've been made right with God. 
Because God stepped towards us.
Because God made a way.
Because Jesus.
We live in the now and the not yet, made right with God, The Spirit giving Life, yet there is another step still to come it seems, when all the decaying parts of us that pull us away from who God intends us to be, are finally gone...
#letters
#Romans 
#redemptivestrands #hopeishere #weareBeloved 

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