"Moral-Scope"
Stretching is good for my body,
not for my morals.
A speed limit causes temptation in me to
stretch how fast I can go before I get a ticket.
I don't want a ticket.
Why do I do what I don't want to do?
Speed becomes a fruit of temptation that consumes my focus instead of the law. Stretching the speed limit is symptomatic of moral stretching in my life. I don't quite have a handle on how I might be stretching moral laws but now I have a "moral-scope" to search them out.
I woke up this morning thinking about the Book of Romans and the law. I never understood it before today. God laid it on my heart to search out the meaning so that by my understanding He could grow greater within me.
Romans 7:14-25
14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[c] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do – this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
21 So I find this law at work: although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 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. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
Stretching is good for my body,
not for my morals.
A speed limit causes temptation in me to
stretch how fast I can go before I get a ticket.
I don't want a ticket.
Why do I do what I don't want to do?
Speed becomes a fruit of temptation that consumes my focus instead of the law. Stretching the speed limit is symptomatic of moral stretching in my life. I don't quite have a handle on how I might be stretching moral laws but now I have a "moral-scope" to search them out.
I woke up this morning thinking about the Book of Romans and the law. I never understood it before today. God laid it on my heart to search out the meaning so that by my understanding He could grow greater within me.
Romans 7:14-25
14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[c] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do – this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
21 So I find this law at work: although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 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. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
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