Quote:
Originally Posted by Sam
Someone once asked, "Are you a sinner who struggles to love God or are you a lover of God who struggles with sin?"
You are not the first person to go through this. The Apostle Paul evidently did too. Here's his description of his struggle in the New King James Bible and also in the Message:
8 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. 19 For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. 20 Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. 21 I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. 22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. 23 But 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. 24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 I 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. NKJV
17-20 But I need something more! For if I know the law but still can't keep it, and if the power of sin within me keeps sabotaging my best intentions, I obviously need help! I realize that I don't have what it takes. I can will it, but I can't do it. I decide to do good, but I don't really do it; I decide not to do bad, but then I do it anyway. My decisions, such as they are, don't result in actions. Something has gone wrong deep within me and gets the better of me every time. 21-23 It happens so regularly that it's predictable. The moment I decide to do good, sin is there to trip me up. I truly delight in God's commands, but it's pretty obvious that not all of me joins in that delight. Parts of me covertly rebel, and just when I least expect it, they take charge. 24 I've tried everything and nothing helps. I'm at the end of my rope. Is there no one who can do anything for me? Isn't that the real question?25 The answer, thank God, is that Jesus Christ can and does. He acted to set things right in this life of contradictions where I want to serve God with all my heart and mind, but am pulled by the influence of sin to do something totally different. The Message
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Woohooo! Thank GOD for HIS WORD it is so REAL and opportune for
what we go through!!
8-20 (scriptures above) are what helped me MOST when I ws comin back
from 7yrs of horrendous backsliding, I might never have made it out of that pit were it not for HIS WORD,
and also the scriptures that are in the post that follows the one I'm quoting here, these SCRIPTURES are
all like comfortable ole friends to me.
There IS POWER in the BLOOD of JESUS and in HIS WORD!
No matter what one is going through, no matter the weaknesses of the flesh, we CAN overcome as JESUS overcame!
Follow HIS example., if we belong to HIM we have everything at our disposal TO obtain the VICTORY!!
In fact we ARE
already victorious through Him!!!
I
CAN do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me!!
WHY do people forget that we WILL go through trials and tribulations while
we are in this flesh!???
Don't act surprised!! We have been forewarned so that we may
be foreARMED!! Put on the FULL ARMOR OF GOD and you will have
nothing to fear., nothing to dread.
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