Did we in our own strength confide, our striving would be losing;
Were not the right Man on our side, the Man of God's own choosing:
Dost ask who that may be? Christ Jesus, it is He!
And He must win the battle.
(Martin Luther)
"What makes the demands of Jesus to strive and to be vigilant seem burdensome is the assumption that we are left to ourselves...We are not left to ourselves in our striving. The command to strive is the command to experience the powerful striving of God on our behalf in fulfillment of his new-covenant promise to cause us to walk in his statutes." (John Piper)
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