<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421615" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Inward Warfare</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Strange and mysterious is my life,<br>What opposites I feel within!<br>A stable peace, a constant strife,<br>The rule of grace, the pow'r of sin:<br>Too often I am captive led,<br>Yet daily triumph in my Head. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I prize the privilege of prayer,<br>But o! what backwardness to pray!<br>Though on the Lord I cast my care,<br>I feel its burden every day:<br>I seek his will in all I do,<br>Yet find my own is working too. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I call the promises my own,<br>And prize them more than mines of gold;<br>Yet though their sweetness I have known,<br>They leave me unimpressed and cold<br>One hour upon the truth I feed,<br>The next I know not what I read. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I love the holy day of rest,<br>When Jesus meets his gathered saints;<br>Sweet day, of all the week the best!<br>For its return my spirit pants:<br>Yet often, through my unbelief,<br>It proves a day of guilt and grief. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">While on my Saviour I rely,<br>I know my foes shall loose their aim;<br>And therefore dare their pow'r defy,<br>Assured of conquest through his name:<br>But soon my confidence is slain,<br>And all my fears return again. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus different pow'rs within me strive,<br>And grace, and sin, by turns prevail;<br>I grieve, rejoice, decline, revive,<br>And vict'ry hangs in doubtful scale:<br>But Jesus has his promise passed,<br>That grace shall overcome at last.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Newton">John Newton</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421615" data-title="The Inward Warfare de John Newton" data-description="Strange and mysterious is my life, What opposites I feel within! A stable peace, a constant strife, The rule of grace, the pow'r of sin: Too often I am captive led, Yet daily triumph in my Head. I prize the privilege of prayer, But o! what backw..."></div> </div> </div>

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