We fight sin because we love, not to be loved.

In various movies/books etc, we've all read tales about a person saving the life of someone and then that someone whose life was saved goes on to live their life in service to the person who saved them. Sometimes they do this until an opportunity arises for that indebted person to redeem themselves by saving the life of their savior, other times they simply remain in their servitude to their savior forever - until they die or their savior dies. 

I'm not sure how likely this is occur today in any circumstance, it seems unrealistic at best. Let's say I go to cross the street and a person pulls me out of the way of a car about to hit me. Do I drop everything and offer my servitude to the person? No. It's just not done.

Doctors save patients all the time- and their patients don't offer their life in turn to serve the doctor.

Why do you suppose people have done this though, it real life and in stories?

Because they are so grateful for the chance to live all because someone saved them. They would no longer be living if that person hadn't saved them and this to those people means their saved life belongs to that person. The gratitude is overwhelming. The realization they live because of another is overwhelming. 

We who are born again, live a new life, with a spiritual birth given to us by a Savior who DIED so we could get this chance.

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

Rom 6:12  Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. 

Rom 6:13  Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. 

Rom 6:14  For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. 

We are called to YIELD ourselves to God once we accept Him into our lives, and believe in His sacrifice for us. We are called to yield our members as instruments of righteousness to God. We are called to NOT let sin reign in us, not obeying sin's lusts.

We are given the GREATEST GIFT that exists- God's Love and from that love eternal life!  Jesus preached of eternal life knowing how precious this gift is for us, all of us!

Is this gift wrapped in a bow and set in a box as something we can pull out and touch, see? No.

This gift is a promise.  We've all given promises before, haven't we? We've given our word on something even as simple as telling someone we promise to be somewhere at a certain time. There is NOTHING to touch, nothing to see when we make such a promise, it's by our word only- it's a promise. God has given us a promise and God will NOT go back on His word. God will NOT break His promise.

The promises Jesus made are real!

We know that eternal life in the love of our Heavenly Father, our loving Savior, and the Holy Spirit is a gift we will receive, a gift we have received.  The promise is, that when we die we will sleep and when our Savior returns He will call us from the grave, or if we are still alive when He returns we will rise to meet Him in the air- changed, immortal. 

We are sin prone and engage in spiritual warfare against sin. We are sin fighters, not sin accepters, not sin users, not sin excusers. Where there is sin in our lives we have to war against it, spiritually, through the grace of our LORD.  If there is ANY sin in our lives striving to separate us from God we go to battle we don't let it reign in us. Even if we have to daily wrestle with the sin, we fight!  We don't give in and despair of ever being sinless, that is why we have a sinless Savior, He is sinless for us. We are to fight, not despair. We are to trust, not despair. We are to believe, not despair. Some days the battle will be so fierce despair will be right in front of us, but we cannot grasp it! We must hold fast!  Our fight against sin isn't to save us, we'll say that over and over again. Our fight against sin is because we are saved already.

If you are married then you'll fight for your loved one. You are already married, you aren't fighting to get married, you fight because you love them. When you have children you fight for them, you don't fight to get them you have them, they are yours and you love them!  God loves us! We love God! We fight sin because we love, not to be loved!

All through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, NOW and FOREVER!!!!!!!