Reckon Yourselves (1) - All The LORD is near Daily Devotionals for 2026

Reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 6:11

Reckon Yourselves (1)
The great trouble of every believer is not so much what he has done as what he is. It is the painful consciousness of having this evil nature: pride, self-will, and lust cropping up within, even if they do not come out. And the more his desire to live for the glory of God, the greater his sorrow at the garment being spotted by the flesh.

This evil nature is his greatest enemy, his constant opponent, that upon which Satan and the world can act, and which neither time nor circumstances can improve, so desperately wicked is it, and deceitful above all things. The more we are occupied with it, the weaker we are toward it, because it becomes an object in the place of Christ. The secret of power over it is to know that it has been crucified with Christ because of its incurable badness, to reckon it dead to disallow its cravings, and to find all our springs of comfort and strength in Christ glorified, to reckon ourselves to have died indeed unto sin, and to be alive unto God in Christ Jesus our Lord (Rom. 6:6–11).

In eternal glory we shall not need so to “reckon,” for we shall be completely and forever delivered from it; but we are to so reckon now, because “the flesh” is still in us. Yet it is equally our privilege to say with the apostle, “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me” (Gal. 2:20). This is Christian life.

H. H. Snell

“Living with Christ,” who “dieth no more,”
Following Christ, who goeth before,
I am from bondage utterly freed,
Reckoning self as “dead indeed.”
Glory be to God.

T. Ryder