Struggling With Sin

The human nature is attracted to sin like a moth to the fire. Our flesh is weak and a slave to sin. When you offer yourself to someone to obey him in everything, you are slave to the one whom you obey. There is a constant struggle with us to overcome seen as Paul did in his letter in Romans 7:15-20 ,'I do not understand what I do. For what I want do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 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. 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. Now if do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin in me that does it.'

How could Jesus be sinless as a baby if he took our fallen, sinful nature?: An exploratory essay on an intriguing subjectHow many of us find ourselves in the situation painted by Paul above where we are in a constant state of war within of good and evil. This is the truth of life that we are always faced with that the battle of good and evil takes place in our minds as shown in Romans 7:21-23,'So I find this law at work: I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God´s law; 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 to sin at work within my members.' As we strive to live righteously so does sin try to entrap us more viciously. Just as even in our mind we are a slave to God´s law, our sinful nature is a slave to sin.

This causes us to be in a state of despair with some of us living resigned to 'our fate' of living in sin 'because we can´t help it'. But there is hope which Paul shows us in Romans 8:1-4, 'Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man in order that the righteousness requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.' It is only through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior that we can overcome our sinful nature. Now you have to make your choice of whether you will obey sin or obedience to God through Christ, only that one leads to death while the other to righteousness and eternal life.