2010-10-07

Today’s Verse:
"Who will rescue me from this body of death?" - Romans 7:24

Prayer for Today :

Heavenly Father,

Some of us stayed up until midnight to welcome the New Year, but most of us slept through it. Past is in the past, we must accept that some issues could never be resolved, and we would need to let "them" go, as we couldn't afford to let our past to ruin our future.

Father, it is hard for us to admit to our struggles, our limitations and our weaknesses. Father, Thank you for giving us the letters from apostle Paul who was honest enough to admit them. He says, "I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it." (Romans 7:15-20).

The verse today described the capital punishment. At that time, a murder victim's body would be tied directly onto the perpetrator's back. Therefore, at the end, the bacteria-filled corpse would infected the perpetrator and he would die of an agonising death.

In here, Paul was describing the weight he felt from his old nature pressing in, like this "body of death". Father, the past is in the past, we cannot afford to have "the bacteria-filled corpse" attached to us. Father, help us to be as truthful as Paul and admit our sins, so that we may embark on a new life ahead of us.

In Christ's glorious Name we pray, Amen.