What Are You Doing?

Do you know what you are doing?

I mean yeah, you are watching this video but do you really know and understand what you are doing?

Welcome to Soldier for Christ.

In Romans chapter 7, Paul is talking about the Law and about Sin. I think he is talking about what a lot of us go through and what a lot of us deal with. He says

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. -Romans 7:15

Sound like someone struggling with temptation. How many times have you picked up that cupcake knowing it's something you should not do, yet do it anyway? I mean come on man! A moment on the lips forever on the hips am I right!?

But it's true. And not just with cupcakes. By the very fact that we get out of bed in the morning we can be assured that we will face some sort of temptation as we move through our days.

“Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” -Matthew 26:41

We get bombarded on all sides with marketing and social pressures to give in to what is socially acceptable even though it may be something we do not what to do.

So what are we to do? How can we break this cycle?

We can't. Paul goes on to explain for us...

* So I find this law at work: Although 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 me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! -Romans 7: 21-25

It is only through the grace and forgiveness that comes from our Lord Jesus Christ that we can be saved. Not from anything we can do. Because even though we may be willing our flesh is weak (L3 Verse) and we just can't do it on our own. Watch and pray that you do not fall into temptation and then...

Press on. Fight the good fight. As a Soldier for Christ.