We see the tendency to self-worship, the tendency to stray from God’s will and to rebel against his good orders, and like an enlightened mechanic we say, “There’s your problem, right there.” The diagnosis is helpful. If we don’t diagnose the problem correctly, we cannot address it effectively. We see that our soul is prone to slipping out of gear, dropping quite easily and quickly from Romans 8 to Romans 7. So here we go again, bringing Romans 8 to bear on ourselves. Some of us like to call this work “preaching the gospel to ourselves.”
