Study Desk

No one could follow the code of Moses. The Code couldn't save us because we are sinners by nature and unable to follow the Code no matter how hard we try. God did for us what the Code could not. He sent his son to live a perfect life for us and then be sacrificed as the last and final sin offering.

Jesus followed the Code perfectly and then passed that perfection on to us. The Code was fulfilled for us. We now have a choice to ride in sin and death or ride in life with Jesus.

Do you think more about sin or the things that please the Holy Ghost? That's how you know which of these you ride for.

But that can't be you. You are not controlled by sin any longer. You are controlled by the Spirit of God. Those who are not controlled by the Spirit of Christ do not ride for him.

When you ride for Jesus, your body will die, but your spirit will live because you've been made right with God.

If you ride for sin, you'll die in it. But if you ride for the Lord, you will live.

Those who ride for God are children of God.

God has a tight rein on all of creation as everything waits for that hopeful day.

Even creation longs for the day when all of God's kids will join it, free from death and decay.

We who ride for God also suffer in pain as we wait for the future glory that is to come. We wait to be freed from sin and suffering.

We long to be given our inheritance as children of God. We will have new bodies and a new life free of pain and suffering. Those who ride for him hold onto this hope since it was given to us when we saddled up for him. We need this hope because we don't have what God promised us yet.

If we had it already, we wouldn't be waiting for it so calmly and patiently.

When our feet slip in the stirrups, the Holy Ghost is there to help us. Think about this, we don't really even know what to pray for, but the Holy Ghost prays for us with words and sounds we don't understand.

God knows who will ride for him. He chose them to ride for his Son and become like him. Jesus would be the firstborn of God's line of kids.

If God were willing to give his son as a sacrifice for you, do you think he would hold other things from us?

Jesus died for us and will raise us to life. He sits at the right hand of God pleading for us.

Even the Good Book says, "For the sake of the brand, we ride in danger every single day. We are being butchered like sheep."

But, despite all these things, victory is guaranteed for us who ride for the Lord.

It's God's mercy to give and he'll give it the way he chooses. We can't choose for him nor can we be good enough to get it.

I've heard all the arguments. One might say, "Then why does God blame us for not riding for him? If he's in charge, then it ain't our responsibility."