Before
I know it, sin drips from my mouth and floods my mind. Oh the struggle.
Romans
7:22-23 I love to do God’s will so far as my new nature is concerned; but there
is something else deep within me, in my lower nature, that is at war with my
mind and wins the fight and makes me a slave to the sin that is still within
me. In my mind I want to be God’s willing servant, but instead I find myself
still enslaved to sin. So you see how it is: my new life tells me to do right,
but the old nature that is still inside me loves to sin. Oh, what a terrible
predicament I’m in! Who will free me from my slavery to this deadly lower
nature? Thank God! It has been done by Jesus Christ our Lord. He has set
me free.
My
current struggle is in not easily recognizing the extent of my sinfulness. I
can easily preach it, but continuous righteous living eludes me.
Ouch.
It hurts. I reveal this because I love the Lord with all my heart, mind and
soul, but the sinner in me wins. It's the same struggle the A…
