Ever feel like this? I do...a lot actually.
Thankfully Paul gives us the answer in verse 25 (highlighted).
14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do--this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. 21 So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God's law; 23 but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God--through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.
--Romans 7: 14-24 (NIV)
Lord forgive us for when we think we can stand on our own.
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2 comments:
So this passage makes it evident that we will struggle with sin until the end, since we are "sold as a slave to sin." Let's be sure that this struggle that Paul is writing about is always present in our lives. If we ever find ourselves not struggling with sin, then perhaps we are no longer a slave to God's law.
Thanks be to God!
anonymous: excellent point!
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