I read this passage the other day from Romans 7: 15-24:
"I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. . . . 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 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. . . . When 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 of the law of sin at work within my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death"
Do you ever feel like the part of you that feels tempted to sin is seperate from you? With ever part of you, you want to do the right thing, but you fall again. I guess it all goes back to "The Spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak". I mean, Paul wrote this passage. The apostle. Even after having Jesus here on Earth at his side, he was tempted by sin.
