Under the law with its ten fold lash,
Learning, alas, how true,
That the more I tried, the sooner I died,
While the law cried, You! You!! You!!!

Hopelessly still did the battle rage,
"O wretched man" my cry,
And deliverance I sought by some penance brought,
While my soul cried, cried! cried!! cried!!!

Then came a day when my struggling ceased,
And trembling in every limb,
At the foot of the Tree where One died for me,
I sobbed out, Him! Him!! Him!!!
WWSJ pg 61

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Trying Tree

Satan's job is to get you to try harder.

Trusting Tree

Holy Spirit's job is to remove you from the equation.

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Trusting we live free of guilt and shame. Trying we die.

"The one who sows into his own flesh, from the flesh will reap corruption. But the one who sows into the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap Life Everlasting." (Galatians 6:8 DLT)

Those who cling to things, in the end, when all things go the way of decay, they decay with them.

Those who cling to the Eternal One live enjoying that One forever.