How good is Jesus?

Today = interesting.

It's been a whirlwind. I was so mad at myself all day for something I did yesterday. Romans 7 style.

-¹⁵For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. ¹⁶Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. ¹⁷So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. ¹⁸For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. ¹⁹ For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. ²⁰Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.

²¹So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. ²²For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, ²³but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. ²⁴Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? ²⁵Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

All day I was angry. Fruit of that anger was me arguing with customers at my job. I never do that! It was not a good day. But then the Lord reminded me of the doctrine of justification. WOW! my eyes were opened. I am SO wretched and evil and deserrve nothing but punishment and wrath. But Jesus stood in my place on my behalf! I am counted as perfect and righteous on Jesus' account! Oh such amazing grace!!! How sweet the sound!!! Left to myself I am the vilest of creatures. But thanks be to God that he changed my heart, without my permission, saved me and will never let me go! I am amazed.


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