Romans 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
Like the disciples of Christ, we too have our individual struggles and issues to deal with. The elders, and deacons of our church aren’t exempt, for we all have cultivated and inherited tendencies to confront which strive for the mastery. But like the disciples of Christ, mercy and grace are granted to one and all, so that we will be enabled to live victoriously in the here and now, and because of this fact, there is no need for any to be shackled to the habits and indulgences of bygone years.
Instead, let us grab the proverbial bull by the horns, and wherever it be the case, that one’s progenitors may have passed on down to us tendencies, habits or deficiencies, now we know that God’s grace and mercy can put these latent tendencies into reverse gear, for this is the very essence of salvation.
We therefore end with a passage of scripture which will enable us to live strong, not groveling in failures or weakness, but rather taking hold of the grace and mercy promised to a thousand generations.
Romans 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!