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ON HUMAN WEAKNESS

God comes in where my helplessness begins.
--OSWALD CHAMBERS (1874–1917)

God wanted weakness—who so weak as I
-- HANNAH HURNARD (1905–1990)

Men’s weaknesses are often necessary to the purposes of life.
--MAURICE MAETERLINCK (1862–1949)

My weakness—my helplessness—my sense of inferiority has turned out to be my greatest strength.
--HAROLD RUSSELL

Our weaknesses make us appreciate God’s strength.
--ERWIN W. LUTZER (1941– )

Very few true disciples of the Lord Jesus are allowed always to appear sensible and correct. It is not likely that the Lord of love will let us bypass the way of weakness and foolishness altogether.
-- HANNAH HURNARD (1905–1990)

THE BATTLE BETWEEN THE FLESH AND THE SPIRIT
"The spirit is willing enough, the body is weak!"

Matthew 26:41 (NLT)
Keep alert and pray. Otherwise temptation will overpower you. For though the spirit is willing enough, the body is weak!"

Romans 6:19 (MsgB)
I'm using this freedom language because it's easy to picture. You can readily recall, can't you, how at one time the more you did just what you felt like doing—not caring about others, not caring about God—the worse your life became and the less freedom you had? And how much different is it now as you live in God's freedom, your lives healed and expansive in holiness? s."

Mark 14:38 (NLT)
Keep alert and pray. Otherwise temptation will overpower you. For though the spirit is willing enough, the body is weak.".

Romans 7:15-25 (NLT)
I don't understand myself at all, for I really want to do what is right, but I don't do it. Instead, I do the very thing I hate. I know perfectly well that what I am doing is wrong, and my bad conscience shows that I agree that the law is good. But I can't help myself, because it is sin inside me that makes me do these evil things.

I know I am rotten through and through so far as my old sinful nature is concerned. No matter which way I turn, I can't make myself do right. I want to, but I can't. When I want to do good, I don't. And when I try not to do wrong, I do it anyway. But if I am doing what I don't want to do, I am not really the one doing it; the sin within me is doing it.

It seems to be a fact of life that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. I love God's law with all my heart. But there is another law at work within me that is at war with my mind. This law wins the fight and makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin? Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord. So you see how it is: In my mind I really want to obey God's law, but because of my sinful nature I am a slave to sin.

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