Romans 7:14-25- 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.
Wow there is a lot of information in two paragraphs there.
We are born into sin. Until we renew our minds and seek the Lord the sin is the natural thing for fallen people.
By reading Paul’s description it becomes apparent that sin is always going to be crouching right there. It’s not pushed away and on the sideline to never try to appear again. We have to constantly put on the armor.
One thing I get out of this when I read it is, don’t get discouraged and roll over. Fight. Whatever your day or yesterday brought, put it behind you and fight. Don’t get discouraged and just slip further away from the Lord because it’s no use. Fight. Seek.
The more we can make our mind a slave the more we can fight off the law of sin waging against us. The Lord wants victory in our lives, not defeat.