Life offers many challenges and temptations that can throw us off course in our walk with God. I know the things that I should do and I know the things that I shouldn’t do. It sounds simple, right?
Choices are easy when I like the things I should do, but it’s not so easy when I like the things I shouldn’t do. All too often, I end up doing what I want to do whether it is right or wrong. And I don’t like that!
The answer to this dilemma is Jesus Christ. He died to save us from our sins and He forgives us for all of our trespasses. So when I find myself doing the wrong thing I can go to Him and confess my wrongdoing and He is faithful and just to forgive me. I like that!
Romans 7:18-25 (NLT) - “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. 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. 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. I have discovered this principle of life—that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. I love God’s law with all my heart. 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. Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death? 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.”