We're suppose to finish strong...

I'll keep it short and sweet tonight.

As I sit here on this New Year's Eve, I reflect on the lazy day that just expired; I went to work and really didn't earn my paycheck today. I'm certain God wasn't smiling down on me as I lethargically did minimal tasks and just let the day pass by. It's supposed to be in these moments, when no one is looking, that we're supposed to shine. There were things that should have been done, but weren't. I totally blew it.

I'll try again tomorrow, but it's simply frustrating to know I should live one way and yet I'm pulled toward another set of decisions. I totally get what Paul was talking about in Romans. Today, that's me. Thank God for his grace! The Christian walk isn't always easy.

Romans 7:15-25

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 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. 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. 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.

So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God's law; 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. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 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.