the struggle with sin

"In my reading, I printed out an article by Greg Herrick, which summarizes John Owen's "On the Mortification of Sin." Owen does a study of Romans 7:21 and it is very in-depth into the struggle between the natures within us. As I was reading through the summary, Herrick made what I thought was an excellent analogy to understand the power of the "laws" of sin. He says that there is a difference between knowing about sin, which comes from external instruction, and knowing sin, which stems from experience within the struggle. This is similar to the old adage that it's one thing to know about Jesus, but it's another thing to know Him...."

you can read the rest of this post over at contemplative thoughts. a very good read and i've come across some other really good posts on this site.

something else....

i grabbed from contemplative thoughts was a link to this hehe...hmmmm...thats what some of us want to "dilute" God down to.