Welcome to my Daily Reading Blog.  Currently I'm doing a daily reading with a number of other men from our church where we read through a book of the Bible every day for a month.

 

Each of my daily posts consist of a thought or a verse that I found noteworthy from my reading.

 

During the month of August we are reading Romans chapters 13 to 16 once a day.

God's Law is Righteous PDF Print E-mail
Written by Tim Stephens   
Sunday, 13 June 2010 14:26

Romans 7:15-16 "For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good."

What an interesting verse.  Paul here is not condoning sin because we can't help it since our flesh is weak; instead he is arguing that when we do not want to do, or don't do what we want to do, we are agreeing with God's law.  We are saying that the law is good and we do not measure up!

Because of the law we have a knowledge of sin, and the conviction of the Spirit bears witness that the law is good.  The law is not invalidated because Christ has lifted the curse, instead we need the law.  Now more than ever.

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