Have you ever felt like you live in Romans 7:13-24? “For I do not do the good that I want to do, but I practice the evil that I do not want to do.”
I have such great intentions but often do not have the resolve to carry them through to completion. I recognize my own impatience, arrogance, self-centeredness, and yet I still frequently operate in those.
I want to be a good, healthy, Spirit-filled disciple, and yet so many days I seem to function in my own strengths and succumb to my own weaknesses.
“What a wretched man that I am” could be my life’s motto.
Could be, but it is not.
Fifty years ago, my life’s motto changed. “[I] have redemption, the forgiveness of sins, in [Christ Jesus my LORD]. [Colossians 1:14 HCSB]
And as Paul reminds: “How joyful are those whose lawless acts are forgiven and whose sins are covered!” [Romans 4:7 HCSB]
No longer am I a “wretched man.” (Even thought I may feel that way some days!)
Now I am a joy filled child whose lawless acts are forgiven and whose sins are covered. PTL.
