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Joseph February 26, 2010 Called To, creation 2.0, Spirituality Comments Off

For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is,

in my flesh.

I can will what is right, but I cannot perform it.

(I have the intention and urge to do what is right,

but no power to carry it out).

For I fail to practice the good deeds I desire to do,

but the evil deeds that I do not desire to do are

what I find myself doing.

Now if I do what I do not desire to do, it is no

longer I doing it but the sin principle that dwells

in me.

So I find it to be a law that when I want to … Continue Reading

Joseph September 22, 2009 New Birth, Spirituality Comments Off

Now if I do what I do not desire

to do, it is no longer I who do it,

but sin that dwells in me.

So I find it to be a rule of action

within my being that when I want

to do what is right and good, there

is evil in me, though I desire to do good.

For I delight in the Law of God

according to the inward man.

But I see another law in my members,

at war against the law of my mind,

making me a prisoner to the law of

sin which is in my members.

O wretched man that I am!

Who will deliver me from this