A sprinter does not stop to take notice of the scenery. He does not stop when he feels out of breath. He does not stop when his shoes are untied. Instead he locks in view the goal, the tape marking the end of his race. He fixes his eyes on it, and runs toward it. That is solution. Like a sprinter we fix our eyes on Jesus and He makes us more than conquerors.
Friday, April 1, 2011
The answer
In life we struggle with sin. It is a constant that cannot be shaken. However, there is victory! There is a way to look sin and flesh in the face and laugh at it, no longer giving it the control it so easily usurps. The solution: Jesus, well actually fixing our eyes on Jesus. Jesus was there the whole time. I find in Romans 7's epitome of the struggle the focus is on Me and on My sin. The thing before my eyes is that which I am trying to subdue. All this attention feeds it like a ravenous dog, and it grows in intensity and ferocity. The solution is to fix my eyes not on myself, not on my sin, but on Jesus. It is through Him that we can say "thanks be to God who has delivered from this body subject to death."
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