Here is an excerpt from the book - it is talking about the internal "mole" we have that purposely sabotages our desire to follow God's ways.
"Another man expressed his situation this way:
"I don't understand myself at all, for I really want to do what is right, but I don't do it. Instead, I do the very thing I hate. I know perfectly well that what I am doing is wrong, and my bad conscience shows that I agree that the law is good. But I can't help myself, because it is sin inside me that makes me do these evil things. It seems to be a fact of life that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. I love God's law with all my heart. But there is another law at work within me that is at war with my mind. This law wins the fight and makes me a slave to sin that us still within me. Oh, what a miserable person I am!"
Believe it or not, those words were written nearly two thousand years ago by the apostle Paul, and they are found in Romans 7:15-17,21-24 (NLT). Paul knew the mole inside him, and he named it our "sin nature." The inbred desire to sin is deceptively powerful, says Paul, and I know what he is talking about."
We all struggle with feelings of helplessness - but there is comfort that we are not alone. God used Paul despite his struggles, He wants to use us too. Do not let the comfort of knowing we all struggle become an excuse to continue to sin, use it to fight the lies of inadequacy and shame that keep us out of the fight.
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