Romans 7:15
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Today’s Bible verse is
Romans 7:15 (NIV)
15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.
Let’s read the verse in context:
Romans 7:14-25 (NIV)
14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do–this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. 21 So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 but 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. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25 Thanks 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.
Today’s Quiet Time with God
I think we can all relate to the Apostle Paul in today’s verse. We want to do the next right thing, but we don’t always succeed. One of the things I am always taken by is that Paul writes these verses as a mature Christian. He had easily been walking with the Lord for 25 years at the point when this letter is written. He still struggles. I am glad he was courageous enough to admit it. I am glad that the Bible doesn’t edit out the weaknesses of the people of faith. All of us have struggles, but thanks be to God, Jesus has come that I might be free and have a life free from guilt and shame. Does that mean I can just continue to sin without remorse or repentance? NO! IT means that the grace of God encourages me to keep on moving forward. It means that His Spirit empowers me to overcome one day at a time. It means that even when I fall short, I can ask for forgiveness and get my focus on Jesus, and start living again, doing the next right thing. Life isn’t fair, do the next right thing, love God with all your mind, soul, heart and strength, you will be blessed as you do!
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