WHY IS HE TALKING ABOUT ME?
Rom 7:14-25
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. 15 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. 16 I know perfectly well that what I am doing is wrong, and my bad conscience shows that I agree that the law is good. 17 But I can't help myself, because it is sin inside me that makes me do these evil things.
18 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. 19 When I want to do good, I don't. And when I try not to do wrong, I do it anyway. 20 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.
21 It seems to be a fact of life that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. 22 I love God's law with all my heart. 23 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. 24 Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin? 25 Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord. So you see how it is: In my mind I really want to obey God's law, but because of my sinful nature I am a slave to sin.
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** What more can I say? Paul is obviously talking about me! This is my life wrapped up in 12 verses…. 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 MY LORD! I find that the more I stay close to Jesus the less miserable I am. However the farther I am away from Him, the MORE miserable I am. Duh! The answer is very simple but the act of obeying it is the hardest thing to do in my whole life. There is a war continually between my spirit and flesh and my mind goes crazy trying to mediate between the two! Thanks be to God who always causes me to triumph through Christ Jesus my Lord!
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1 Comments:
I'm right there with you.
The key to me is found in verse 23 that the war is in our mind. If I could just resolve my thinking to never waver, then I could have victory.
I have high hopes for the Truth Project to bring me some freedom. Just going through a few sessions, I realize how many lies I have accepted as truth.
God bless you!
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