From J. C. Philpot's Daily Portions
October 24 "Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?"
Romans 7:24 If the Lord the Spirit has implanted that piteous cry in
our soul, "O wretched man that I am!" this will follow as a necessary
consequence--"Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?"
Where shall I look for deliverance? From what quarter can it come? Shall I
look to the law? O no! that curses and condemns me, because I am continually
breaking it. Can I look to friends? They may pity and sympathize; but they
cannot remove the body of sin and death; it is too fast-linked on for them
to remove. Shall I go to ministers of truth? I may hear what they say with
approbation; but there is something more needed to remove this chilling
embrace of the body of sin and death. Shall I look to the Scriptures? They
contain the remedy; but I need that remedy to be sweetly applied. "Who then shall deliver me?" What refuge can I look
to? Where can I go, or where shall I turn? From what quarter can help or
deliverance come? See the bewilderment! view the perplexity of an exercised
soul!--looking here, and looking there; turning to the right hand and
turning to the left. Yet from one quarter only can the deliverance come. And
thus, when the Apostle was brought here--when he was sunk down to a low
spot, and anxiously turning his eyes to every quarter to see whence
deliverance could come--God blessed his soul with a view of his precious
Son. God the Spirit wrought in his heart that living faith whereby he saw
Jesus, and whereby there was a communication of the blood and love of the
Lamb to his conscience.