Reckon Yourselves (2) - All The LORD is near Daily Devotionals for 2026

But you are not in the flesh.
Romans 8:9

Reckon Yourselves (2)
To be occupied with what “the flesh” is in its various activities and deceitful workings is not to be reckoning it dead; to be regarding it as an antagonistic force to be overcome is to reckon it living; but to be holding it dead in the death of Christ, as judicially put to death in Christ our Substitute, and to find all our resources in Christ risen and glorified, is to reckon ourselves to have died indeed unto sin and to be alive unto God in our Lord Jesus Christ. In this way we have power over ourselves, and can daily bring forth fruit unto God.

The way of faith is always to look at things from God’s stand-point, to take sides with Him who regards our old man as having been judicially set aside forever in the death of Christ, and who always sees us “complete in Him,” in whom dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.

It is quite true that we are the objects of the continual care and discipline of the Father of spirits. If we walk after the flesh, instead of after the Spirit, this may call for His loving rebuke and chastening; but that in no way interferes with the precious truth of our continual acceptance and standing in Christ, by whose one offering we have been perfected forever. The fact is that, through grace, we are not “in the flesh,” but “in Christ,” yet the flesh is in us; but our part is to reckon our old man as having been, before God and to faith, judicially put to death in Christ crucified, and thus to be so constantly occupied with the triumphant Son of God, as to find all our resources, all our strength, all our springs, in Him.

H. H. Snell

In us the Spirit dwells,
The witness of God’s love;
Our hearts rejoice while He reveals
Thy glorious things above.

J. G. Deck