Footprints for Pilgrims - 340

 
In order to be truly delivered one must learn, and that by experience, that one is captive to the power of sin, and has no power to deliver oneself even when desiring to be free.... "Who shall deliver me? " is the expression that we cannot do it ourselves: we look around for another. That is what we have to learn—our utter powerlessness, our dependence upon God.