Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
We apologize for the “blackout period.” A big storm in northern California took out power lines, telephone lines, and the Internet. After a week without phone lines, we’re still being told that it may be several days before the lines and cables will be restored. Until then, we will try to send “Dial Daily Bread” occasionally from a computer in another town. We appreciate your patience.
Sincerely,
The DDB Staff
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Whether an addict is caught in the meshes of alcoholism, drug abuse, tobacco, or whatever makes him/her a prisoner, his plight is described in inspired language:
“That which I do I allow not;
For what I would, that do I not;
But what I hate, that do I” (see Rom. 7:15-24).
The addict doesn’t want to surrender again and again to his evil habit; but he’s in captivity.
What’s at the bottom of it? Only one answer is clear and direct: “I am carnal, sold under sin. ... If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law [of God] that it is good.”
The apostle Paul had thought the problem through: “Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh), dwelleth no good thing; for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not” (KJV).
There you read the anatomy of an addiction. The root problem: sin.
You hear the voice of the Holy Spirit pleading with you, “Take this Exit to freedom from the freeway of sin;” you confess that your addiction to evil, whatever it is, is sin and you need a Savior. You see what is happening: “There is 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.”
You can’t be happy in that captivity! You cry out, “O wretched man that I am!” Sin is not a pleasant master; you once thought it is, but now you know.
“Who shall deliver me?” the captive asks.
The answer—the real Lord Jesus Christ. The Father sent Him “in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin the flesh” of all humanity (4:3, 4).
The real Lord Jesus Christ is the one who took upon His sinless nature our fallen, sinful nature and battled against sin therein—completely triumphing over it right there precisely where the problem is—in our sinful human flesh and nature. “I am crucified with Christ,” declares the same apostle in Galatians ( 2:20). He so loves righteousness that now his song of victory is for ever. Jesus is as ready to give you victory as He was to give it to Paul. Now, tell Him in advance, “Thank You!” That is always step one and it leads to the next ones.
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