I DELIGHT TO DO THY WILL
I remember well as a young man growing up in church, I wanted to do well and make right choices; but I found that, despite my best intentions, I still did things that I was not proud of. Afterwards, I would resolve to do better, only to fall to the same weaknesses a short time later. Unfortunately, the church that I grew up in could not offer me the answers to the conflict I was feeling. The Pastor himself admitted openly that he didn’t believe much of the Bible, and so substituted a social gospel that was devoid of any true power to change lives. For this reason, I thought I had seen religion and found that it had nothing to offer me, so I turned my back on Christianity. I wandered for a number of years in confusion, and gave myself over to a lot of hurtful pursuits until finally God called me to Himself. I was amazed one day when I discovered a passage in scripture that exactly described the dilemma that I faced as a teenager. I read in Romans 7, “For I know that in me (