in or out, up or down, sinless or sinner...

[RamboPreacher]

It is interesting that at a bit of introspection I find that I am a creature of the flesh, and not a very “spiritual” person. I seem to be a slave to sin, bound and enfolded in it’s grasp. I don’t even understand my own actions at times, just plain bewildered at times.

Many times, I do not accomplish what I want (no matter the “spiritual connotation”), but I do the very thing that I don’t want to do, and disdain. And when I do the things that I really don’t want to do, and accomplish what I didn’t intend, it seems that I become more enslaved to them. Does that make sense?

So I find it to be a law (for me) that when I want to do what is right and good, evil is ever present with me and I seem to be subject to its insistent demands! Aughggh. I endorse, delight, learn and enjoy the word of God (“Bible”) now that I have a new nature (“Born again Christian”).

However, I discover that in my daily appetites and wants, a different law (for me). There is a “war” against the law of my mind and it tries to make me a prisoner to that law of sin that seems to so easily overtake me.

Who will release and deliver me from these laws that I don’t want to have anything to do with? Thank God, He is and does, through Jesus Christ the one that I proclaim as Lord in my life and family!

So, though I find that I seem to serve these wants and desires that I don’t want to do, it is these very wants and desires that have been and continue to change within my being. The desires, I find, are switching from being self-destructive and negative (as far as God is concerned in relationship with me) to a desire and want that leads me ever closer to that creator and God that loves me so personally.

It becomes available to me, then, that the things I do that I don’t want to do become fewer (even though I sometimes participate and seem to be enslaved by them at the time), because the things I don’t want to do are being replaced with things I want to do more than the things I don’t want to do.

[Brian]

Amen Rambo! Push, fight, resist, persever, overcome, and walk in the Spirit daily as to not fullfill the lust of this flesh we are all bound up in!

I too struggle. I too practice the things that I detest. I too am battered and beaten in this struggle of life. But I stife on toward a higher calling and closer walk with my Lord. Do I always excel in my quest? Nope. But I keep moving on toward the leading of the Holy Spirit and crucify my flesh DAILY and try to walk closer to the One who has life in His name, Jesus!

God bless you Rambo

[beckrl]

Romans 7:
23But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
24O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
25I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.


Thought I've read that some were. I too have been thinking the same.
I do thank God.