Day 12, May

Identify Who You Are

Let him turn away from wickedness and shun it, and let him do right. Let him search for peace (harmony; undisturbedness from fears, agitating pasions,and moral conflicts) and seek it eagerly. (Do not merely desire peaceful relations with God, with your fellowmen, and with yourself, but pursue, go after them!) 1 Peter 3:11

Paul said, "I want to do what is right, but I can't "

Romans 7:15-25 I do not understand what I do; for I don't do what I would like to do, but instead I do what I hate. Since what I do is what I don't want to do, this shows that I agree that the Law is right. So I am not really the one who does this thing; rather it is the sin that lives in me. I know that good does not live in me--that is, in my human nature. For even though the desire to do good is in me, I am not able to do it. I don't do The good I want to do; instead, I do the evil that I do not want to do, this means that I am no longer the one who does it; instead, it is the sin that lives in me.

So I find that this law is at work; when I want to do what i good, what is evil is the only choice I have. My inner being delights in the law of God. But I see a different law at work in my body-- a law that fights against the law which my mind approves of. I makes me a prisoner to the law of si which is at work in my body. Wat an unhappy man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is taking me to death? Thanks be to God, who does this through our Lord Jesus Christ!

This then, is my condition: on my own I can serve God's law only with my mind, while my human nature serves the law of sin.



He was a new person on the inside because he was born again, but he still had to resist the temptation to sin.

Paul explained that "the sin (principle)" (v20) continues to dwell in us. We want to do right, but we don't have the power to perform it, because evil is ever present to tempt us to do wrong. Only God can deliver us from this tendency to sin; that is why we must ask Him to deliver us from evil each day.

**Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path**