Thank you for giving us good. We don't have it inside of us to start with--you give it to us. Praise to you! Help me learn better how to wage war against the evil that wants me to do wrong.
Love,
Romans 7
The law is only binding till death. Take marriage: Till death do us part. Mrs. H. has had three husbands, but she has not broken the law. She has just had the misfortune of losing her first two :-(
We have died with Christ, so the law no longer binds us. Now we can serve God!
The law is not sin, the law reveals sin. But when the law said "Don't covet," you realize you covet, and then you die, because sin is in you.
Then there's some stuff that's a little hard to follow. Basically, the law and command is holy, and shows what is sin is utterly disgustingly sinful. I think.
Then comes the part that I've been relating to lately. I know what I need to do, but I don't do it. In fact, the stuff I know I shouldn't do, I do that instead. But I need to realize that I'm not the one doing it. It is the sin living in me.
So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22For in my inner being I delight in God's law; 23but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. 24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.
That hits me right where I've been. I have been experiencing that war a lot more!