Know your diagnosis

When I make up my mind to do the right thing, I agree it’s the right thing. I agree with what the Lord says. I say I’m going to do it, and I do the exact opposite. Then I discover it isn’t really me that’s doing it. It’s sin that’s dwelling in me.

And so you can say, if you like, that the law is God’s diagnostic. You know what a diagnostic is? It diagnoses your problem. You see, you go to any doctor and say, “Doctor, I’ve got a pain in my stomach.” He doesn’t just reach out and take a bottle of pills. He tries to diagnose the cause of the pain because when he knows the cause, then he can find the cure.

And God has provided this diagnosis for us. Here is how we can find out the real problem. It’s sin dwelling in me.