Day 21 : Who will rescue me from this body of death ?
St Paul expresses his own inner conflict which we all can relate to. In the end, he closed it with thanksgiving
Reading Romans 7 : 14 - 25
Sin and death
14We know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold into slavery to sin.j15What I do, I do not understand. For I do not do what I want, but I do what I hate.16Now if I do what I do not want, I concur that the law is good.17So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.18For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh. The willing is ready at hand, but doing the good is not.k19For I do not do the good I want, but I do the evil I do not want.20Now if [I] do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.21So, then, I discover the principle that when I want to do right, evil is at hand.22For I take delight in the law of God, in my inner self,23l but I see in my members another principle at war with the law of my mind, taking me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.*24Miserable one that I am! Who will deliver me from this mortal body?25Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore, I myself, with my mind, serve the law of God but, with my flesh, the law of sin.m
On the verse 19 and 20, it's what happened with me. I know in my mind that it's sin but I still do it anyway. I indulge in sin, moralized the sin and in the end my conscience still judge me that I'm guilty.
It's only by God's grace that I am able to free myself from the attachment of sins and have the courage to do what is right.
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