Let our hearts admit, “I am poor and weak. Satan is too subtle, too cunning, too powerful; he watches constantly for advantages over my soul. The world presses in upon me with all sorts of pressures, pleas, and pretences. My own corruption is violent, tumultuous, enticing, and entangling. As it conceives sin, it wars within me and against me. Occasions and opportunities for temptation are innumerable. No wonder I do not know how deeply involved I have been with sin. Therefore, on God alone will I rely for my keeping. I will continually look to Him.” (John Owen)
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. (Romans 6:12-14 ESV)
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Great prayer by John Owen. Thank you for sharing it. When I am truly
honest with myself I must admit and confess that as much as I might desire and as much as I might try, I am utterly unable in my own strength to overcome all of the sin in my life. My state is eternally hopeless and I stand eternally guilty and convicted before God. Thank God for His provision of Grace and Mercy, and for His provision of Power to overcome the sin that would entrap and enslave me.