Section 3
do not try to be humble, pride will not seem to be present. But if you make up your mind to be humble, pride will be present with you. Likewise, if you do not make up your mind not to lose your temper, your temper is not present. But whenever you determine never to lose your temper again, your temper is present immediately. This is "the law that." This law has no commandments, only the principle that whenever we will to do good, evil is present.
Not many Christians, including the seeking Christians, know that there is such a law. How ever, we all have been troubled by the fact that whenever we purpose to be patient, we fail. In stead of being patient, we become angry. In like manner, whenever we make up our mind to be humble, we end up being proud. Before we were saved or when we were not diligent in seeking the Lord, we seemed to be doing rather well. Later, we learned that we should be a new person. I was taught in this way. But the more I tried to live like a new person, the more the old person was present with me. Then I was taught to reckon myself dead, and I practiced this teaching. How ever, the more I reckoned myself dead, the more living I became. The more I tried to do good, the worse I was.
I believe that we all have experienced this. When we were careless, we apparently were all