Section 6
we are freed, discharged from the law (Rom. 7:6). Do not go back to the law. To go back to the law means to make up your mind to do good. When ever you make up your mind to do good, you are returning to the law. If you pray, ''O God, help me to be humble from now on," you are going back to the law. Although you are praying to God, you are not going to God; you are going to the law. Consider a husband who repents for not loving his wife. He makes up his mind to love his wife from now on and asks the Lord to help him love his wife. This prayer indicates that he is going back to the law. I can assure you that he will not be able to love her. The more he tries to love her, the more he will fail to love her. He will find himself in Romans 7, in the situation of not doing what he wills to do, but of doing what he does not will to do (Rom. 7:19). Although you may will to love your wife, you cannot do it. You may will never to lose your temper, but even tually you lose your temper more than ever. Why? Because, by going to the law you are going to the wrong source. You have not yet realized that you are an utterly hopeless and helpless case. We need to reject ourselves and say to the self, "Self, I don't trust in you. Self, don't make up your mind to do anything. You are not able to do