"A Prayer for Help" -2

"For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me." (Psalms 40:12) Do you really want to know what our sin is to us? Really? Okay then, here is the Truth: our sin is more than we can handle! We can't erase or remove them; we surely can not win any prize that will make them go away, at least not anything outside of what Jesus Christ can give us; heck, we can't even stop from sinning, and the more we try, the more miserable we feel by sinning; so then why do we try to handle something that is out of our control? Give it to God! That's right; Jesus has not only died for those sins, but He rose from that grave to give us new life in Him; making that old sinful creature of no effect, if, that is, we are no longer trying to wrestle around with the flesh. The flesh and the Spirit will always fight against each other; and yet, if that old man is crucified with Christ, then why does he seem to have any power at all? Do you think it might be somehow connected to us giving him some power over sin? Paul uses the perfect example of how this works, as he illustrates dying to sin as counting that old man to be dead in Christ, not only for the purpose of not committing sin, but also for the purpose of having the victory of sinfulness; because in the flesh we are not going to win anything; therefore we are no longer under the law, but under grace; because the law was given for the benefit of the flesh, but grace was given to set us free from the law and the flesh (Romans 6:1-7:13). As soon as we start giving power to the flesh in order to have victory over sin, we are going to give the flesh power to sin; it is only by Spirit that we can yield our members as instruments of righteousness unto God, because the flesh is counted as dead, and no longer has the power to continue sinning, nor the power to stop from sinning. Do you think you have the power in your flesh to stop from sinning? Think again, because the flesh lives to sin; it's like a fish out of water, and wants desperately to get back into that water, or it knows that it will die; yet it should never have been taken out of the water in the first place... "What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death? Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in the newness of life. For we have been planted together in the likeness of His death, we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection: knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin." (Romans 6:1-7)