The Spirit is Willing...BUT...!
“Watch and pray…the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”~ Matt. 26:41
When speaking to His followers of the inner spirit being willing, He also always considered the weakness of their outer man. The outward man is perishing by the day, but the inward man is renewed day by day; so says Paul.
Willingness and performance are two different things. One may have the willingness to perform but impotent as to carrying it out.“…to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.”~ Rom. 7:18
Your blessed Lord knows what you would do if you could do it. "But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to build an house for my name, thou didst well in that it was in thine heart.”
At the Judgment bar God will reward us for what we would have done, if we could have done it. But for reasons known only to Him we were unable to do so.
The world says, "Good intentions are not enough"; true in many cases. But with our loving God, in some cases it is good enough!
by an Aged Saint