Today, I am reading and commenting on  Romans 8-10.

Paul expands on his theme about serving righteousness rather than sin in today’s passage.  He tells us that if we live according to our physical desires, we will remain in sin and be dead to the Spirit.  But, if we live according to the desires of God’s Spirit, we will die to our physical desires and experience true life.  Further, as we teach ourselves to live by the Spirit, we will lose all fear because we will feel God within us.  Paul even addresses those of us who struggle knowing what we should pray.  He tells us that as we work to do what is righteous, the Spirit Himself will intercede for us.  Paul points out that any suffering we experience for doing God’s will binds us closer to Christ and reminds us that He died for us.  If God has given His own Son to die for us, how much more will He give us going forward?  As I think about what Paul writes I realize that there is nothing to fear.  Any suffering which I may experience in serving Christ will be temporary, but the joy which will follow will last forever. So, I will seek to embrace suffering just as Paul did.  Remember how God sent prophets to warn Paul what would happen when he returned to Jerusalem that final time?  Yet Paul still went to Jerusalem.  He did so because he embraced suffering in order to server Christ.  There is joy from following Paul’s example.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.