You were dead in your transgressions and sins in which you once lived following the age of this world, following the rule of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the disobedient.

Ephesians 2:1-2

Paul writes to the Ephesians to help them understand the reality of their spiritual condition before their relationship with Christ. He tells them that they were dead in their transgressions and in following the spirit of disobedience that led away from God.

Like the Ephesians, we have all been dead in our transgressions and sins. Sin doesn’t make you bad. It makes you dead. Sin kills your soul. Sin kills relationships with others. Sin kills our relationship with God and disconnects us from him.

God’s laws cannot be broken. When we transgress God’s laws and commands for how to live, we don’t break his laws, we break ourselves against the laws. And so, we have a need to be saved and forgiven from breaking those laws.

Pray today for a clear understanding of how sin kills your relationship with God and others so that you will avoid it in the future.