To Do More, We Must First of All be More
J. Rendel Harris. Psalm 119:32 I will run the way of your commandments, when you shall enlarge my heart. You may see a little child trying to lift a heavy weight, and you tell it that it must wait till its muscles are stronger: it must wait till it has "become." This was the way at the beginning in conversion: "dead works" means that in us there does not dwell force or power to lift the great weight of the commandment or righteousness of God; hence they are useless or stupid works. When you find in your heart your inability to fulfil the Divine commandment, and have not the strength and power you want, though all day trying to lift the heavy weight, you come to God and .say, "It is plain that, as I am, I cannot live out this righteousness, and I come for a new life to live it out. I must have Thine own strength." Then we understand our Lord's saying, "Except a man be born again," etc. (J. Rendel Harris.) Parallel Verses KJV: I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart. WEB: I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free. HEY