"The God of My Strength"

"For Thou art the God of my strength: why dost Thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?" (Psalms 43:2) Turning to God requires us to do one very important thing, it's called turning; we must turn from our sins! Easier said than done, is what most people will say; but it's really not something that we can do in our own strength, nor is it what God expects us to be able to do; which is why He sent His Son to come and to deliver us from the bondage of our sinfulness. Yes, I totally believe that Jesus not only came to die for my sins, but He came to free me from my sinful nature; that's what being born again is all about! No longer I am bound by that desire of the flesh, because there is now a new war within my members, one which involves the Spirit of God verses the flesh; much different than the old man, which could only try to discipline his flesh through his own strength: "Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith the LORD of hosts" (Zechariah 4:6). Not only do we have this new ability to conquer the desires of the flesh, but we are now a child of the King of Glory; and because we are now a child of the King, we now have been set apart and sanctified for a higher calling than that of just having the power of sin, but one which calls us to a Spirit of reconciliation unto God (2 Corinthians 5:17-19). It is this found nature, which is of God, that enables us to not only assist others in being reconciled to God, but continues working in us as a tool of righteousness unto God; not that we have any righteousness within ourselves, but we know by the Spirit of God dwelling in us, that our righteousness is found in Christ Jesus, and in Him alone. The point that I am trying to get across is one of our continuous need to keep abiding in Christ, in that we must continually make certain we are not trying to walk in our own strength, but in Him: without Christ we can do nothing; but in Christ, we can do all things... "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made us free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His Own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit." (Romans 8:1-5)