God speaks today Saturday | June 8, 2024
Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.
(Psalm 143:1)But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
(Romans 7:23) To peace along the path of agony
The Bible characters' mixture of weakness and strength reminds the author of their own spiritual journey. They have struggled with sinful tendencies but have a deep passion to serve and please the Lord. The author acknowledges the reality of good and evil coexisting within us and cites Paul's recognition of the internal struggle that divides him. The author acknowledges that victories gained during the spiritual journey have been costly and long-term but have left in their being a sediment of humility, patience, and mercy towards others that have been useful in their career as a pastor and counselor of souls. The author identifies with the struggles, agonies, and victories of the farmer, the athletic runner, and the soldier and acknowledges that no discipline seems to be a cause of joy but yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
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Cross Reference
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
(Galatians 5:17)From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
(James 4:1)Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
(1 Peter 2:11)I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
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