Overcoming The Guilt of Doing What We Don’t Want To Do – Sunday Thought For The Day

Do you have a habit that you would like to rid yourself of, a habit that you know isn’t of the Lord? Well, the simple truth is that we all do.

I keep the following in mind. The Holy Spirit doesn’t beat us up with guilt, He convicts us of the wrong we’ve done. It is our enemy the devil who attempts to make us feel guilty and unchristian. The Holy Spirit shows us what we did and He reminds us that we have forgiveness and as soon as we ask
for it and that: “There is, therefore, now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” (Romans 8:1 KJV)

There will always be those times when we do the very things we do not want to do, in our walk with the Lord. Even the Apostle Paul struggled with this. But we have an advocate with our Father in Heaven who makes intercession for us. We are forgiven as often as we need to ask until we, through
Christ, are victorious over whatever it is with which we struggle.

The key is that we do not make peace with the sin. We must not make the grievous mistake of thinking we can fool ourselves into accepting that’s just the way it is and there’s nothing we can do about it. The truth is that in our own strength there is nothing that we can do about it, but through
the power of God we can overcome whatever it is that troubles us. As often as we commit the sin we must confess it and ask the Lord to give us victory. And He will.

READ:

Romans 7:15-25 (KJV)

15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.

17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I not, that I do.

20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.