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3R Thursday is a short devotional that contains Ramblings, Ruminations, and Reflections published most Thursdays to equip Christians with practical theology and Biblical philosophy.
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3R THURSDAY: The Decision Point
Sin shows up in cycles.
Thankfully, faith shows up in cycles as well.
Each time there is an opportunity to sin, there is opportunity to act in faith.
This is the Decision Point we face everyday.
When we reach a Decision Point, we can either choose to act in faith (thereby growing in God’s glory) or choose to sin (thereby stalling in God’s glory).
When we act in faith, we grow in the glory of God. God uses our faith for his Glory. Yet, inevitably, we will reach another Decision Point.
We can choose faith again.
Or we can choose sin.
Christian, if you’re in a season where you act in faith one day and abdicate to sin the next, trace your undulation back to the Decision Point.
What Decision Point do you keep running into that provides you the continual opportunity for faith and sin?
Is it the same type of Decision Point each time?
Then that’s your sign to confront that Decision Point, act in faith, and when the next Decision Point arrives…
ACT IN FAITH!
Paul reminds us that we were once dead in our sins:
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Even though we were once dead in our sins, “God, being rich in mercy,” made us alive in Christ. We can rest assured that “by grace [we] have been saved through faith.”
So when we reach a Decision Point—perhaps the same Decision Point we’ve encounter time and time again—we know that we can act in faith, believing that we were created to do just that. We were created in Christ Jesus for good works, for God’s glory, so we no longer have to be dead in sin and continue the cycle.
Our prayer should be that over time, we grow in God’s Glory, that our decisions are made in faith, not in sin. We don’t want to undulate: a continuous cycle of faith one day and sin the next; we want to reach a point in our spiritual walk where we recognize the Decision Point and anticipate acting in faith, long before we encounter the Decision Point.
Ultimately, we are the workmanship of Christ, created for God’s Glory. We can anticipate the Decision Point that provides the opportunity for faith and sin and choose to act in faith. Not so that we may boast, but so God may show us the “immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.”
Here’s to a blessed week!
See you next Thursday,
CFW