That reminds me,
How many times in my life have I determined to do a thing that I knew would end badly but for the sake of my own fleeting pleasure I just went right ahead?
Far to many, and it has never been worth the trouble. I have learned well that I do not have the answer to what is best for me conscerning even some of the smallest opportunities in my travels through life.
Romans 7:14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15 I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good. 17 So then it is no longer I that do it, but sin which dwells within me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it. 19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do. 20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I that do it, but sin which dwells within me. 21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. 22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inmost self, 23 but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I of myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
So what to do when you discover you are helpless to find a lasting peace on your own? So glad you asked. It is only in Jesus: His life, His death, His word, His love for you and I.
He is either the savior of the world or a figment of someone's wild imagination. If he is God His Words will not let you down.
Matthew7:7 "Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it willbe opened.
