Responses to God's Grace
Faith Leads to Holy Living
Live in the light of God (Isaiah 2:5)
Live Holy Lives
Romans 7:14-25 New International Version
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 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[ a] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but 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: Although 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 me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me.24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ, our Lord!
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature[ b] a slave to the law of sin
For Reflection
Here Paul is lamenting the human condition. It is the classic human internal conflict between one's ego and one's soul -- between one's desire to receive and one's desire to bestow between one's selfish desires and one's selflessness. For Paul, the tension is resolved by his belief, that even though the tension remains, Jesus Christ has delivered him (away from sin).
Pray
Pray so that you can be more in tune with Christ, who resides in your soul and who will protect you and deliver you from sin into peace and rest.
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