I sin and I repent, every day. That is something that is so frustrating to me that I can hardly stand it. I want to see improvement, but it seems that I don't. Even when my outer behavior seems to be better my heart remains filled with hate and lust and sin of every sort. Thanks be to God for the salvation we have in our Lord Jesus Christ! In Him we have eternal life, our vile sins covered and our old man drowned and dead forever, new life in Christ is in me NOW, and this is a wonderful and indescribably joyous bit of news! My salvation depends on Christ alone, not on my behavior, thank the Lord!
"For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin. There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." (Romans 7:14-8:1, ESV)
[1][1] The Holy Bible : English standard version. 2001. Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.
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