Doing and Not Doing

Read Romans 7-9

Romans 7:15 says, "For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I."  I’m glad Paul had the same problems we do.  We know what we should do and we know what we shouldn’t do.  Then we turn around and do what we shouldn’t do and fail to do what we should do.

You’d think we’d be kept too busy doing what we know we should do to have time to get ourselves into trouble doing things we shouldn’t do.  The things we should do are time consuming enough not to leave us time or energy to do things we shouldn’t do, but we manage somehow.

We need to rely on the Lord every day to give us the strength to first do what we should do.  He’ll help us make those right decisions and stick to them.

Tomorrow’s reading: Romans 10-12