Continual Burnt Offering: Daily Meditations, September 16 (7:18)
“For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not” ―Romans 7:18.
EVERY one of us is by nature worse than anything he has ever done. The natural heart is a den of every kind of evil (Matt. 15:19). The flesh is incorrigibly corrupt and can never be improved (Gal. 5:19-21; Rom. 8:7). It is all-important that this be recognized and judged in the presence of God. When thus dealt with, we cease to look for good in ourselves, and realize that it is from the new heart (Ezek. 36:26; Matt. 12:35), given in regeneration, that all good must come. Then we shall find that, as we walk in the Spirit, we shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh (Gal. 5:16). Our boast will then be only in the Lord (Psa. 34:2), for we shall realize that all is grace from first to last.