Why Can't I Stop?

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.


We all want to live by God's word and live our lives like Jesus. It seems like the harder we try we somehow drift back to our sinful ways that we have vowed to give up. We hate these ways and we despise ourselves when we commit these acts. The truth is we can't quit doing these things along, all we can really do is put our faith and trust into Jesus and ask him to help us stop doing these things because we are sinning. So if you are having trouble stopping something that you know in your heart is wrong, put your hands together fall to your knees and ask for the help, ask for Jesus to come into your heart and help you overcome these things because you know in your heart that it is wrong and you want to stop.

Love Is Actions

1 John 3:18

"Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth."

It is so easy to tell someone that you "love" them but do we really mean it whenever we say it? To me I don't think it is possible unless you know they do by the actions that make towards you. That is what this verse is saying by let us not love with words but actions, you should know by what someone does instead of what they say.