Spiritual Dilemma
Tags: action, delight, deliver, desire, dilemma, evil, good, mind, rule, spiritual
Now if I do what I do not desire
to do, it is no longer I who do it,
but sin that dwells in me.
So I find it to be a rule of action
within my being that when I want
to do what is right and good, there
is evil in me, though I desire to do good.
For I delight in the Law of God
according to the inward man.
But I see another law in my members,
at war against the law of my mind,
making me a prisoner to the law of
sin which is in my members.
O wretched man that I am!
Who will deliver me from this
body of death?
I thank God! He will 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.
( Romans 7.20-25).
Please consider these points:
1) This dual nature presents a dilemma.
2) Flesh versus mind ( carnal versus
spiritual) continue to be in conflict.
3) The only way out of this dilemma
is to submit to the Lordship of Jesus.
4) The divine rescue mission is
accomplished by Jesus Christ our
Lord and Savior who died to deliver us
from our sins and rose to grant us
eternal life with Him, with The Father
and with the Holy Spirit.