Oswald makes two really interesting distinctions today: 1) sin vs. human nature; and 2) innocence vs. holy character. He seems to be saying that while Jesus has done the work of defeating sin in our lives, washing us white as snow, our daily choices move us from what is natural to what is spiritual.
Consider this excerpt:
"The conflict is along the line of turning our natural life into a spiritual life, and this is never done easily, nor does God intend it to be done easily. It is done only by a series of moral choices. God does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy in the sense of innocence; and we have to turn that innocence into holy character by a series of moral choices. These choices are continually in antagonism to the entrenchments of our natural life, the things which erect themselves as ramparts against the knowledge of God" -- Oswald.
Turning a natural life into a spiritual one. Turning innocence into holy character. Making choices that frustrate my natural inclinations.
What in my life exalts itself against the knowledge of God? What keeps me from wanting to seek him, study him, follow him? Those are the things that need to be destroyed -- even if they don't seem like sin.
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