“I Reckon”

Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. - Romans 6:11

    The child of faith has the unnatural privilege and ability to embrace divine truth even when diametrically opposed to human reasoning. The believer in Christ serves up his carnal mind as enmity and in opposition to God. The imparted divine nature is in agreement with God against the old nature. Everything in my being tells me that I am nothing but sin, and sin is all I can do. The Word of God tells me this. My experiences in life tell me this. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but [how] to perform that which is good I find not. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me (Rom 7:18).

    However, not voiding the truth of who and what I am in this flesh, I reckon myself to be dead indeed unto sin and alive unto God through Jesus Christ my Lord! The child of God is dead on two counts. He is dead to the law because by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses (Acts 13:39), and dead to sin because once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself (Heb 9:26). When I look at myself, even in light of the Scriptures, I would most despair in unbelief. However, as he gives grace to look to Christ, I can reckon myself dead to sin and alive unto God in Christ Jesus my Lord.

“Free from the law, O happy condition,
Jesus has bled and there is remission,
Cursed by the law and bruised by the fall,
Christ hath redeemed us once for all.”