This is the message we have heard from Him and declare to you: God is light; in Him there is no darkness at all. 1 John 1:5.

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace. Ephesians 1:7 NKJV.

Because of His glory and excellence, He has given us great and precious promises. These are the promises that enable you to share His divine nature and escape the world’s corruption caused by human desires. 2 Peter 1:4 NLT.

Can you imagine being the Apostle Paul? He was schooled in the strictest faith of the Pharisees and was zealous for all the laws of the Pharisees handed down so as not to disobey God. And then he met face-to-face the giver of the Law of God Himself and began his true learning of what God’s Spiritual Law meant for all of us: To enable us to love God and to love one another and to turn away from everything causing so much grievous harm. And Paul is practical. He knows what he and what we are made of, dust of the ground, yet created in great Love for love…and he knows we live in a broken world – broken by the hate and lies of the evil one who has no love for God and great hate for us, God’s children dearly loved. And all of Paul’s energies since meeting Jesus, the Son, are given to help us draw nearer to Creator God, Father, Son, Spirit, whom he loves so well. Romans 7: Or do you not know, brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives? For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband. So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress though she is joined to another man. Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Jesus Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death. But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter. What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, “You shall not covet.” But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead. I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died; and this commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me; for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? May it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by effecting my death through that which is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful. v. 1-13. If we think the good and life-giving Spiritual Law of God is bad because of the evil in our world and in us, that is Satan, the father of lies working in us. Satan entices us to choose wrong ways of thinking and so be enslaved. It helps to turn our eyes and our hearts to Creator God and see His love at work within us as we turn to Him. For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin. For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good. So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin. v. 14-25.

We wrestle. We have experienced the consequences of sin in our own lives and we know the sorrows we and others have caused first-hand. We see the grievous harm in our world today and we know the root cause. It’s a battle we cannot win on our own. We were never meant to win it. Thanks be to God…through Jesus Christ our Lord! Creator God helps us see the Law is Spiritual and with the Spirit’s help we see how much we need God. God is light…in Him there is no darkness at all! Keep your eyes and your heart on Him and the light of His love will guide you. Pray that His Love will enlighten your spirit and pray for hearts to be turned to Him in faith and hope and prayer for His good will for us all. Yes, sin is at work in our world and in us. And when we turn to God, He is at work in us helping us and giving us strength and hope to follow Him…always! And when we stumble, we turn in trust to Him who loves us – and with Him – we keep on going. That is the whole purpose of our lives and it is being worked out beautifully by Creator God who knows us and loves us to our eternity with Him. There has always been a plan for His Salvation…God’s Good Will for you in Him. Be thankful and rejoice and always pray for all of us, for that brings us ever closer to His perfect Will. Our whole world and all of Creation is in deep need of Him who created and sustains us, our Savior and King. And He is here. Always!