To Think About
by Norman Grubb

"The mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace"
–Romans 8:6

Maybe by repeated failures, by the strain and stresses of a life we canpt cope with, at last God opens our eyes, and we see our mistake. The new man (the human part of it) is as helpless as the old man! Neither was made to function by itself, and never has and never will.

The old mad was Satan in us: the new man Christ in us; ini both cases the human self is the container, the recipient, the agent. At last we see it; and Romans 7 was necessary to our spiritual education as the backside of the desert was to Moses and the years with Laban to Jacob. Now we know how to avoid the pitfalls of that subtle chapter. We still pay calls there, but we know where we are when we do, and we know how to get out quickly.

—God Unlimited