SPIRITUAL DYSPEPSIA

  

SPIRITUAL DYSPEPSIA
Text: Romans 6:1-2
1. What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?
2. Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?

Dyspepsia is a medical term that means indigestion. Inability of the body to break food down into smaller particles. Have you ever eaten so much that you start to feel great discomfort around your stomach? Exactly! That's dyspepsia. Many children suffer this discomfort, some adults do too. People suffer this discomfort because they find it difficult to let go of some things, or to stay away from somethings. After eating to satisfaction, they still go ahead to take in more without minding the aftermath.

Such is the life of many believers today. After having an abundance of God's grace, they complicate issues by still living in sin. Some Christians will even tell you that even as they sin, they have a covering of grace over them; they see this as a cogent reason to go ahead and pitch their tent with sin.

Few people feel bad when they pass through the pains and discomfort of dyspepsia; but some people feel it's an act of over-satisfaction, and they opt to enjoy it to the fullest. That is just how some believers feel guilty when they have an indigestion of God's grace which can only be cause by additional consumption of sin. But some Christians have opted to keep enjoying the pleasure of sin, claiming they have the covering of grace.

Now, Spiritual Dyspepsia is bound to happen to any Christian that consumes and enjoy the mixture of grace and sin. They sometimes take a delicacy of sin on a platter of grace. Forgetting that:

Romans 6:6-7
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."

Remember, the Great Physician can heal all manner of ailments and can put an end to every discomfort. Repent before God removes that covering of grace upon your life.