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In the year 386, in a garden in Milan, a brilliant young professor named Augustine sat under a fig tree and came apart. He had wanted God and his old sins at the same time for years. Then a child's voice came over the garden wall singing, "take up and read."

This is the story of the prayer Augustine was afraid to pray, and the verse in Romans 13 that finally set his divided heart free.

"Put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh." Romans 13:14 (NKJV)

His mother Monica had prayed for that boy for more than thirty years. The freedom Augustine waited so long for was available the whole time.

Read the companion blog post:
https://rodneycoe.com/augustine-give-me-purity-but-not-yet/

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Lift Up Your Day is a daily 5-minute Christian devotional with Pastor Rodney Coe. Every Take 5 episode is a true story of faith that lifts your day, drawn from the lives of believers across history.

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