Romans 7:7-25
Struggling With Sin
7 What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed I would not have known what sin was except through the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "Do not covet." 8 But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from law, sin is dead. 9 Once I was alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. 10 I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death.
11 For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death. 12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good. 13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! But in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
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.
Scripture tells us to confess our sins and when we do we are in essence asking our Father for forgiveness...By Scripture telling us to confess our sins, God is telling us that man is presupposed to sinning (why else would we be constantly confessing)...God's Plan included forgiveness and a large part of His Plan was to have His Son die on the cross for mankind's sins...And like God who is always there to forgive you over and over, one must also learn to forgive themselves...So let us treats other like you want to be treated and in a loving way...
Let us also know that we have a sinful nature and must confess regularly...The Apostle Paul knew of our sinful nature and wrote about it...
One has to remember we are flawed and have a sinful nature...St. Paul wrote about his sinful nature to the Romans...So St. Paul would forgive himself and love himself, even though he knew that we are subject to this sinful nature...He treated others like he wanted to be treated...So St. Paul had learned that when he wanted to do good, evil was also there with him...In his mind he was happy with God’s Will and God's Plan...He knew God's Will and loved God's Will...But he see another thing working in his body and mind...Those things of a sinful nature that makes war against God's Will in his mind and body...This other nature working in his body is our nature to sin, and that nature of sin makes him its prisoner...What a miserable person he said he was!...Who will save him from this body that brings me death?...St. Paul thanked God for his salvation through Jesus Christ our LORD!...And St. Paul knew His Father is forgiving and would be there for Him and LOVE him...Because LOVE is forgiving...God is Full of Grace...