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1 | why is it so hard to obey? | Phil 2:13 | kennyittis | 153775 | ||
philippians 2:13;so does this mean that God has to put the willingness in our hearts to do the things he wants us to do? | ||||||
2 | why is it so hard to obey? | Phil 2:13 | Aixen7z4 | 153777 | ||
We can say positively that God is at work in us, making us willing to do his what pleases him. That is not the problem. The problem is that there are other forces pulling us in the opposite direction. As Paul would say: “To will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not“ (Romans 7:18). There is a battle going on in the mind. “For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members“. “For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would” (Galatians 5:17). The situation is not hopeless, of course. In fact, Paul had given the solution in the previous verse of Philippians 2 and in the previous chapter of Romans. “Work”. “Yield”. Cooperate with God, may I say. He is doing his part. We must do ours. Can we do it? Yes, thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord (Romans 7:25). I can do all things through Christ (Philippians 4:13). |
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