“What I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do,” (Romans 7:15, NIV).
We all struggle with sin everyday and we all fight our different temptations. Even Paul struggled with sin. In Romans 7, he writes about his fight against sin. Starting in verse 14:
“The law is good, then. The trouble is not with the law but with me, because I am sold into slavery, with sin as my master. I don’t understand myself at all, for I really want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do the very thing I hate. I know perfectly well that what I am doing is wrong, and my bad conscience shows that I agree that the law is good. But I can’t help myself, because it is sin inside me that makes me do these evil things.
I know I am rotten through and through so far as my old sinful nature is concerned. No matter which way I turn, I can’t make myself do right. I want to, but I can’t. When I want to do good, I don’t. And when I try not to do wrong, I do it anyway. But if I am doing what I don’t want to do, I am not really the one doing it; the sin within me is doing it.
It seems to be a fact of life that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. I love God’s law with all my heart. But there is another law at work within me that is at war with my mind. This law wins the fight and makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin? Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 7:14-25)
We all fall short of the glory of God. We all fail to meet His expectations. And so He died. Christ died, so we can live. Christ wants us to surrender to Him and not to sin. We all struggle with sin, Christ wants to help us with that struggle.
My sins are many and to great to mention. I do not kid myself in thinking I am something I am not. I am a sinner, only saved by grace. I fail time and again, but Christ asks only that I continue to seek His way and His will for my life. I will never be perfect on my own, but with Christ I am made clean and pure in God’s eyes.
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