Having slowly studied the Bible and periodically making notes, this quote would have
spoken to Matt Talbot.
| Step One: We Admitted We Were Powerless |
TWELVE STEP SERIES (2014)
BY FR. EMMERICH VOGT, O.P.
A PUBLICATION OF THE WESTERN DOMINICAN PROVINCE
“I do not understand my own actions,
for I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. I can will what is
right but I cannot do it. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not
want is what I do. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I that do it,
but sin which dwells within me. So I find it to be a law that when I want to do
right, evil lies close at hand, for I delight in the law of God in my inmost
self, but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind and
making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members. Wretched man
that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God-Jesus
Christ our Lord!”
(Romans 7:15,
18b-25a)
Fr. Emmerich then proceeds to
discuss Step One of recovery.
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