Thursday Devotional - Delight in the Deliverer

Before becoming a parent, I didn’t think of myself as impatient, but I do now! I thought being married to Joe for almost a decade beforehand had helped me let go of some of my perfectionist traits, but apparently not all of them. I’ve prayed a lot this year for God’s help to be more patient.

It’s hard to imagine Paul also struggling with sin, but he did:
Romans 7:19-25a  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!

Paul delights in God’s law but can’t carry it out in his sinful nature apart from God’s deliverance. Delighting in and obeying God’s law is only possibly by His  help. He wants to deliver us! We must be willing to be delivered.

What sin are you and I trying to overcome in our own strength? How can you and I let God deliver and rescue us?

We may not overcome it overnight, but the more we give it to God, the more He will help us. Delight in the Deliverer!

Alice