"Do you not know that if you present yourselves 13 as obedient slaves, 14 you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness? 15 6:17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyed 16 from the heart that pattern 17 of teaching you were entrusted to, 6:18 and having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness. 6:19 (I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) 18 For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. 6:20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness." (Romans 6:16-20)



These verses are truly cause to be joyous! Whether we like to admit or not, in this life we are slaves one way or another. This is what makes it difficult for many people to come to terms with, they do not see that they are already slaves to this world, so they immediately despise the thought of being slaves to God. Whether we are slaves to the Lord, or slaves to this world, we are free of one. The only difference is that one equals death, and the other life. That is what we should keep in mind when we fall into sin, not the single act of it, but realize that its end design is to destroy us. The wages of sin are not sometimes death, but the wages of sin is death. Our true master is not death though, for "The law of the spirit of life in Jesus Christ has made us free from the law of the sin of death" (Romans 8:2)! Every one of us needs prayer to see that stopping our sin is not impossible, and that God's desire is for us to concquer our sins (Genesis 4:7). Every day say to yourselves, "I am free from sin!", even if you are still struggling. Believing that we have the power in Christ to overcome anything is the only way we can, so cling to that with all of your might!