Your Right to Choose

Your Right to Choose

Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness.
Romans 6:13 New International Version (NIV)

When I read the words, “do not offer” I get the feeling that I have a choice that I never had before. In the past (Before Christ) I had no choice except to sin. Remember that old movie, The Blob. The blob just kept growing and eating. Likewise, before Christ I imagined my very existence as one big ongoing sin-blob that kept growing. Once Christ came along (after acceptance) my existence changed. Or, I’ll put it a different way; I was changed from a sin condition to a saved condition. This new freedom I have in Christ is so radical that I have a choice. Today, I can “choose” whether to give into sin’s beck and call or I can choose to answer God’s call to obedience.

No, I do not think this is a sense of duality (two equal opposites fighting to win my soul). The reality is that God has already won by one, for the many. And if you have accepted God’s offer of reconciliation (Jesus Christ), then you get to choose. You are no longer locked into obeying your sin impulses and thoughts. For the first time, you are free to choose godly righteousness.