Day 72: You Are Bound

June 17, 2020By Lia Smith

Talking to one of my closest friends over the past few days, I have become increasingly aware the heavy weight of sinful nature we just so naturally carry with us everywhere we go. It’s something we just can’t get rid because it’s bound to us, and it’s something we so easily hate about ourselves. But it isn’t our identity.

Even more than we are bound to our sin, however, Believers in Christ are bound to Him. He is our identity. As He wants to be close to us, we are commanded to keep Him first in our lives.

Deuteronomy 6:6-9 says, “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates” (NIV).

In order to fight against our sin, we need to rely on the love of God. Even if we tried our very best to love God with everything we have, the sad thing is that we will never be able to and we will fail… But God already knew that back before He created Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. And that is why God bound us to Him.

We are secure knowing that even when we fail Him and fall into sin, God is full of mercy. He wants us to love Him first and then allow the rest to be done out of our love for Him, not out of trying to appease Him and do enough to earn His favor. He loves us already, and you are bound to God.

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