Star-fish

     What is it about rules and laws that drive people to want to break them? Even saying, "I'm starting a diet," can send me to the refrigerator faster than a bear to honey. As I read in Romans today, an explanation became even more clear to me.       The following excerpts in Romans 6:18-7:8 helped to shed light on this human desire to sin. Romans 6:18 You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness…20 What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!…22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life…23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord…7:5 For when we were controlled by the sinful nature, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, so that we bore fruit for death…6 But now, by dying to wha...

Jesus has Risen is the message and hope of Easter. Jesus told us to be at peace, not to fear, or to be troubled as He came so that we could be overcomers in troubled times through His gift of salvation or belief in who He was, is, and will be throughout eternity. My prayer this Easter is that you will accept His free gift of eternal life. May you and yours be greatly blessed this Easter~ Kate (More information regarding His resurrection can be found in the Bible in Luke 24.) Ephesians 2:8 “ For it is by grace that you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves. It is God's gift, and is not on the ground of merit…”