The following words from St. Paul, the greatest Christian missionary that ever lived and the writer of most of the books of the New Testament, echo in my life. These verses describe me. This is the curse of being human. I know what good is, I know what God requires, and in my mind and soul that is what I want to do. However, since I am still a living, breathing man I will never be perfect and won't even come close. All are sinners, and I am one of the biggest. The only thing I hope is that I don't slander the name of Jesus Christ who bought me and God my Father who adopted me. I am saved and going to heaven, because I trust ONLY in Jesus for my salvation, not because I ever think I will be good enough or righteous enough. If St. Paul committed sin but trusted in Jesus to save him, then I know that this Paul (me) is not alone.
"For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God - through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin." -St. Paul, Romans 7:18-25
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