Well today I started my day like a do almost all the time... Getting up putting on my walking clothes, shoes and jacket. Opened the door and out I went. I was really hoping for rain not all day just long enough for an excuse to not walk...No such luck so off I went. Why is it that I really don't want to do it sometimes?? But once I get out there and do it I feel so much better? Maybe it is the cups of coffee I get from my neighbors house.... They have the Saeco machine that has the beans and water in a resevoir you push the button and then a delicous cup of strong coffee ready in minutes. I must say I suffer from coffee maker envy!! I think some mornings this is the only reason I walk. I made a deal with myself no walk no "Mojo" (that is what we call her coffee). Then I come home and start my life.... Then I am ready to understand what I am ready in my bible. And hopefully encounter Him while being alittle more awake!!
Chapter 7:
I read all of chapter 7 and then re read it at biblegateway.com in The Message verison. What I have come up with is we are struggling with sin. Some admit it some don't. It is not always the outward sin in fact it is more the inward sin. The things we think, or do by ourselves. This is the struggle for most of us. Just like me with my coffee maker envy. That would be know as coveting... I struggle with that more than anything I always want what someone else has. Friendships, relationships, different car, house or even spirtual gifts... I have an awesome life with so many blessing and I want more... or what someone else has. Bottom line that is not what God wants for me or He would have given it to me. I need to practice what I tell my kids... Be thankful for what you have not wishful for what you have not... So a few verses that stood out to me..
6But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
14We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[c] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19For 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. 20Now 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. 21So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22For in my inner being I delight in God's law; 23but 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. 24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25Thanks 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.
This is alot to digest!! there is so much to deal with...
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