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Today's Devotion
From Dr. David Jeremiah
The Newness of the Spirit
July 3, 2026
But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.
Romans 7:6
Recommended Reading:
Romans 6:5-115 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. 7 For he who has died has been freed from sin. 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 6:5-11
In Romans 6 and 7, the apostle Paul explains that in coming to Christ we die to the law. That is, we die to the idea that we can be saved by keeping the law. We die to the law as a binding covenant authority over us. The law is no longer the governing framework of our relationship with God. Having trusted in Christ as Savior, the Holy Spirit comes to enable us to live a life that fulfills the undergirding principle of the law—love. We now serve in the newness of the Spirit.
We simply cannot live in a Christlike way on our own or in our own abilities. Jesus wants to live His life through us by means of the Holy Spirit. He wants to do His work through us by the Holy Spirit. A Christlike attitude is one that isn’t focused on us but on doing the will of God. We can only do that through the power of the Holy Spirit within us.
Each day ask the Holy Spirit to guide you in knowing and doing God’s will. Ask the Spirit to fill you today and to have His complete way in your words, deeds, and actions.
All of Christ in all of you. You can never have more. You need never have less.
Major Ian Thomas
