Sin's Stinger

Friday. Rom. 6: 14-23.

Sin’s a hard master. It snaps a long whip with a stinger on the end. It exacts slavish obedience. Jesus breaks sin’s hold. He cuts off that stinger, and breaks the whip. He asks obedience, too, but how different. Obedience is really a music word. It’s the rhythm of your will, at its strongest, with Jesus’ will. Obedience is best when you’re not thinking so much about obeying, but about pleasing your Friend.

Open in the reader The Bent-Knee Time

Restored from a scan of the 1918 edition, with page headers and numbers removed and words rejoined across line breaks. Scan-derived text, still being proofread; compare the original scan before quoting.