“I do not understand what I do…As it is, it is no...

5th December 2009

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“I do not understand what I do…As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I 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. For 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. 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.
So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but 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. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks 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 7:15-25

Exactly, exactly, exactly. I can’t even begin to count how often this happens in my life. The line between right and wrong is a distinct one, a very specific line created by our one and only God. So, why do we try to cover the line with conditions or “but”s? There are so so many “laws” trying to tell us what to believe. The law of church, school, our parents, our friends. But what law should we be following? Which is the only law that matters? Why, our Lord and Savior’s, of course. Simple enough answer. But when we try to justify our sins, we are “waging war” against that Law, we are being made into prisoners “of the sin at work”. Of the Devil’s work! But, thankfully and miracuoulsly, Jesus saves us again and again, and we love Him for that, pretty much all of us here, we undyingly love Him for that! But, we can not use the “Jesus loves me and I love Jesus” factor to form justification for the sins we could have prevented from the beginning, but chose not to. If we love Jesus and we love the Law God has set for us to follow, then we must try our absolute hardest to follow it, down to the last letter!We will fail because we are only human, but that does not disable us from trying and fighting against sin harder than we’ve ever fought agianst anything. So, are you turning all that love and passion you have for Jesus into effort to do what He commands of us?

As JJ Heller (who you all just HAVE to look up, her songs seriously move me down to the core) says in one of her songs, “the love of God is evident in the miracle of you.” Don’t forget that!

Truly Living.