RE: choice stuggling
Romans 7:14 - 25 (GWT) 14I know that God"™s standards are spiritual, but I have a corrupt nature, sold as a slave to sin. 15I don"™t realize what I"™m doing. I don"™t do what I want to do. Instead, I do what I hate. 16I don"™t do what I want to do, but I agree that God"™s standards are good. 17So I am no longer the one who is doing the things I hate, but sin that lives in me is doing them. 18I know that nothing good lives in me; that is, nothing good lives in my corrupt nature. Although I have the desire to do what is right, I don"™t do it. 19I don"™t do the good I want to do. Instead, I do the evil that I don"™t want to do. 20Now, when I do what I don"™t want to do, I am no longer the one who is doing it. Sin that lives in me is doing it. 21So I"™ve discovered this truth: Evil is present with me even when I want to do what God"™s standards say is good. 22I take pleasure in God"™s standards in my inner being. 23However, I see a different standardëat workû throughout my body. It is at war with the standards my mind sets and tries to take me captive to sin"™s standards which still exist throughout my body. 24What a miserable person I am! Who will rescue me from my dying body? 25I thank God that our Lord Jesus Christ rescues me! So I am obedient to God"™s standards with my mind, but I am obedient to sin"™s standards with my corrupt nature.
I especially like verse 25...Thank God Jesus is there to rescue us! God Bless in your decision process.
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