freedom!

John 8:34-36
Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin. The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

I have had to come to grips with the true meaning of what Jesus was saying today. In my struggle with sin my goal is always to please God. But what if that was not what our focus should be? Maybe our focus should really be on simply trusting God. As Christians our hope isn’t in our ability to fight off sin and sin less, but it is in Christ and the fact that sin no longer has any real dominion over us. In our battle with sin we must look solely to the grace of God and trust in that beautiful, marvelous grace. We are free indeed in the shadow of the cross.