Daily Devotions

Rom 7:18-25 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. 19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. 20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. 21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. 22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

This is a battle that takes place within every Christian each day, the battle between the flesh and the Spirit, between the old man and the new man and it is a battle that many seem to losing. The world, sin, and Satan are pitted against the believer in Christ. There are so many things aimed at getting the Christian to lose this fight. The TV programs, the advertisements, billboards driving down the road, the music of the world, they way people dress or their lack of dress today, and on and on we could go. There seems to so few things to help us. But is that last statement true? I think not, I think there are many and powerful things to help us in the fight. There is the Bible that we can open and read, there is prayer and open access through Jesus Christ to God the Father, there is the church and the people of God, there is good Godly music, and I could name more. The problem is that we allow ourselves to be flooded with the things that harm and hinder us and ignore the things that God has given to help us. If we would make better choices on a daily basis with the things we allow into our life we would do better in the fight. May the Lord help us make better choices today.

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