Why do you keep doing the things you despise?

You promise yourself never again, yet find yourself trapped in the same destructive patterns.

You want to be patient, but you explode.

You're determined to break a sinful habit, but you cave again.

Sound familiar? Well, it's because we're all broken. Even the Apostle Paul cried out,

I'm not practicing what I would like to do, but I'm doing the very thing I hate.

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall describes the secret. It's not trying harder.

It's adopting the divine paradox that restores our way.

So let me give you, just as a sidebar here, three of the benefits of the law.

Number one one it defines

sin it tells me what's wrong it tells me what's right there's another benefit to the law

verses eight through 11 it arouses my desire to do wrong now that sounds almost blasphemous but it's

true verses eight through 11. Look at this.

Sin taking opportunity through the commandment produced in me coveting of every kind.

Verse nine, I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin became alive,

and I entered into a death-like existence. But this commandment, which was to result in life,

proved to result in death for me. For sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment,

deceived me and through it, killed me. Now, the commandment is not deceptive, but sin is deceptive.

And I fell into it because of my old nature. Verse 12, so then, so then, the law is holy,

the commandment is holy and righteous and good. It's not a problem with the law. It's the

problem with me. Third, third benefit of the law, it exposes the cause of sin. I am the problem. The law is doing its job,

but it is not the cause of my wrongdoing. Illustration. You have a pain in your side.

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