For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am of the flesh, sold into slavery under sin. I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good. But in fact it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells within me. For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells within me. So I find it to be a law that when I want to do what is good, evil lies close at hand. For I delight in the law of God in my inmost self, but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind, making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I am a slave to the law of God, but with my flesh I am a slave to the law of sin. (Romans 7:14-25 NRSV)
Have you ever done something and wondered when you had finished doing it why you had done it? Or maybe it didn’t take you to complete the action to wonder why you were doing it.
We are hung up in our flesh and the sinful life of our past. We try to get away from it, but on our own we can not do it. We are incapable of breaking away from our flesh and satisfying the desires of flesh and making ourselves better and moving ourselves forward.
Either way Paul is saying it is not us. We either give control over to Jesus or to our flesh. Jesus has rescued us from our sin and death if we will follow Him and let Him have control.
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