With every new sun comes defeat. Though stone has been replaced with flesh, often are my sentiments charged with depravity. I received the gift of life, and what have I to give? Nothing that flows from this mouth is worthy; nothing good lives in this flesh. Who am I to call upon His name? To be chosen as a gift to a Savior? To have my lowly body conformed to a King’s? Who am I that the Pharaoh should listen? For I myself am at war with the law inside of me.
O what a wretched man I am!
I cry out the words of Ezra: “ O my God, I am too ashamed and disgraced to lift up my face to you, my God, because my sins are higher than my head and my guilt has reached to the heavens.”
And as I hang there by my transgressions, by my humility, and by my sorrow, my beautiful Lord says to me, “ I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise.”
What a Warrior’s Spirit that lives in my members! Thanks be to God-through Jesus Christ our Lord!
(Ezekiel 36:26)
(Romans 7:18)
(Ezra 9:6)
(John 17:6)
(Philippians 3:21)
(Luke 23:43)
(Exodus 15:3)
(Romans 7:19-25)
