Romans 7:15-20 ''I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20Now 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. ''
As much as I wanted to be saint and holy, I fall and trip quite often too. Growing up like everybody else, I do struggle a lot with things I want to do, and what I did. In short, the body is fighting the mind, the flesh is in a war with the spirit.
Habits like procrastinations, attitudes of impatience and insensitivity, and routines resulting from laziness are really what I am ashamed of myself. The weaknesses of this soul, sometimes, draw me apart from the crowd or people I love. At times, I chose to run away and hide, I chose to keep it in dark than to fix it. It is bad and I am getting old, I foresee that it'll get worse if I do not do anything about it. At my age, I can differentiate what is good and what is bad, as to what my surroundings perceived to be, and what God told us in the Bible. However, it is not that I can snap my finger and be person without sin at once. Situations where I did what I know is not right happens. The body will try its best to go against the spirit. Plus, there is so much more I've never experienced. Sometimes, sin is just right in front of us, preparing to swallow us in because of what we do not know.
From Romans, Paul, the author, offers himself as an example of the struggle involved when an imperfect person commits himself to a perfect God. He admits his own anguish and despair at failing even when he has good intentions.
''How can I ever get rid of my nagging sins?''
Romans 8:9-11 9You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. 10But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. 11And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.
Romans 7:21- 25 ''21So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22For in my inner being I delight in God's law; 23but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. 24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.''Romans 8:9-11 9You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. 10But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. 11And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.
By faith, I know He came to make me a better person and to fix me right. "For I take no pleasure in death of anyone, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent and Live!'' (Eze 18:32). But for every part that he fixed, if I were to condemn it repeatedly, then I will be punished. ''Righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.'' (Romans 3:22) I need Him more than the next heartbeat.
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