Anyone ever feel
like this, besides me?
Romans
7
14 So
the trouble is not with the law,
for it
is spiritual and good.
The trouble
is with me,
for I
am all too human, a slave to sin.
15 I
don't really understand myself,
for I
want to do what is right,
but I
don't do it.
Instead, I do
what I hate.
16 But
if I know that what I am doing is wrong, this shows that I agree that
the law is good.
17 So
I am not the one doing wrong;
it is
sin living in me that does it.
18 And
I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature.
I want to do
what is right,
but I
can't.
19 I
want to do what is good,
but I
don't.
I don't want
to do what is wrong,
but I do
it anyway.
20 But
if I do what I don't want to do,
I am not
really the one doing wrong;
it is
sin living in me that does it.
21 I have discovered this principle 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 power* within me that is at war with my mind.
This power
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 and death?
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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