BODY
OF DEATH

YEARS AGO cars were not as sophisticated as they are now. When the power steering fluid level was good, turning the wheel was a breeze with one finger. When your power steering fluid got low, you’d have to force the wheel to turn. You’d have to pull and tug. It wasn’t natural. The pull of the wheel back to the center was so strong that without power steering, when you’d take your hands off the wheel, it would snap back to its neutral position.

Some of our lives are like this. We pull and tug trying to make ourselves better and different. After awhile we get tired and go right back to where our bodies are naturally programmed to be. That is what happens when you try to fix the “body of this death” (Romans 7:24) through human effort. It is naturally bent to sin. So it is always going to go back there. Once you take your hands off of it for one minute, it is going to roll right back to its natural bent.53

[Flesh]

Rom. 7:13–18; Gal. 5:17