Wednesday, March 7, 2012

What I want to do... (Romans 7)

Why is it that the people who mean the most to us are often the ones we most frequently show our worst sides to?? Some days I feel as though I am constantly operating in my flesh...allowing unkind words to come from my mouth and unloving actions to dictate my day...even after spending time with the Lord in prayer! Just as Paul described his struggle in Romans 7, so I see myself in his words: "I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do! But what I hate I do... For I know that good itself does not dwell 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 I do not do the good I want to do! But the evil I do not want to do-thIs I keep on doing...what a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!". Romans 7:15,19,24,25. God knows this heart that I wrestle with, and He also knows the cure. In Jesus I have hope of being delivered from my flesh! In Him I am being sanctified and made more like Him. And although some days this process seems woefully slow, He has promised to complete the work He has started in me. I pray that God's patience and grace would be upon all of us as He takes us from glory to glory!

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