I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. Romans 7:15.
Read More“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” 2 Corinthians 12:9. Our weakness should be prized as making room for divine strength. We might never have known the power of grace if we had not felt the weakness of nature. Blessed be the Lord for the thorn in the…
Read MoreFor in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. Romans 7:22-23.
Read MoreThanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin. Romans 7:25.
Read More“Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.” Psalm 37:4. Delight in God has a transforming power and lifts a man above the gross desire of our fallen nature. Delight in Jehovah is not only sweet in itself, but it sweetens the whole soul, till the longings of…
Read MoreFor I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. Romans 7:18.
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