Yielding.

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. 

Yielding ourselves to God.

Our members instruments of righteousness unto God.

Let not sin therefore reign in our mortal bodies- obeying it's lusts.

Let not sin have dominion over us.

Sin will rule us if we let it. Seriously, sin will overcome us if we aren't yielding ourselves to God. You say sin isn't overruling you even though you don't yield to God. You say you're a really great person, loving others, doing great things, feeding the poor, clothing the destitute, giving generously and more to charities. I say, God bless you! However, none of those things comes with a ticket to heaven. Are they amazing things, yes! I will never say they aren't. But if you aren't yielding yourselves to God, who are you yielding yourself too? No one? Well, that’s not possible. You might think it is, but it's not. There are only two sides in this war of humanity - God and Satan. There are no in-betweens and there is no abstaining. Your choice if you choose neither is choosing Satan by default because You have never given your heart to God, and you've never sought forgiveness, never searched for salvation. If you've never yielded yourself to God then you've yielded to yourself and you have no power to save yourself. Satan sweeps up the self-yielding guiding them silently into his fold. He won't make waves, he'll let all the self-yielding live happily in their delusions.

People want to claim a higher power, an unseen power in their lives as coincidences, and happenstances of good fortune occur. They'd rather call the power by some cute pet name, or chalk things up to mysterious odd invisible acting intelligences- but NOT call the power- God.   God calls out for us to yield to Him and He reaches out to us all the time. The Holy Spirit will nudge people hoping they'll yield to God.

Sin will rule us - and it could be the sin of self, the sin of denial, the sin of a heart hardened to God, yet open it so many other ways.

We have to be instruments of righteousness unto God.

We can't let sin reign in our mortal bodies, obeying our lusts.

We can't let sin rule over us.

We MUST yield to God.

More on this tomorrow by the GRACE and MERCY the WILL of our LORD!