My Behaviors Are My Solutions

In spite of our best efforts, our behaviors are only our inadequate solutions aimed at resolving the deeper problem. This deeper problem cannot be resolved by our own power no matter how diligent the endeavor. The implementation of our solutions drives our lives. We utilize all our energy and try to employ others to facilitate our remedy. But as we pursue various resolutions to this deeper problem, we only add more problems to our lives. It permeates all we do.

BIBLE TRUTH
“But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me" (Rom. 7:23 NLT).

HOW DOES THIS APPLY TO ME?
The deeper problem is best defined as the nature of sin that resides within all of us. This nature of sin is incorporated into the essence of who we are. All aspects of our being are infected, not just affected, by sin. This sin nature controls our desires and the behaviors we choose, and establishes our state of being. Because of the sin nature life is dominated by guilt, shame, fear, anger, loneliness, and a propensity to seek self-interest. Brokenness leads to Christ's redemptive process, which delivers us from the deeper problem of sin.

PRAYER
Father, I long to experience the joy for those whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is put out of sight! Yes, I desire to rejoice as those whose record the LORD has cleared of guilt, whose lives are lived in complete honesty! (Ps. 32:1–2)


(excerpts from Desperate Dependency by J. Kirk & Melanie D. Lewis)


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