--The "No-Secret" Secret ~~

"I do not understand
what I do. For what I
want to do I do not do,
but what I hate I do."
--(Romans 7:15)

--A coworker confessed to me that he didn't think he was "Jesus material." I listened as he described what he called his "comfortable, narcissistic" life, and how it didn't satisfy him. "But here's my problem, I've been trying to be good, even caring, but it isn't working. It seems that the very things I want to do, I can't do, and the things I want to stop doing, I just keep doing."

"What's your secret?" he asked me in complete sincerity. "My secret," I answered, "is that there is no secret. I'm as powerless to live up to God's standards as you are, which is why we need Jesus."
I pulled out a Bible and showed him "his" quote as the apostle Paul expressed it in Romans 7:15. Paul's words of frustration often resonate with both pre-Christians and Christians who find themselves trying to be good enough to deserve God but falling short.

--**Jesus has already done the work cross to free us from the very things that have us so puzzled with ourselves!**

Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." [John 14:6]