This Christian Life

Do the Things I Don’t Want to Do

Deep down I know what’s right. I know what I think. I have opinions and feelings about things that drive who I really am. These things have been formed by countless experiences, sermons, and other life lessons that are shaped by my Biblical worldview.

But I find myself doing things I know are wrong. Everything from eating junk food to thinking hateful thoughts… I keep doing it. In the business of life, I lose sight of the things that I’ve learned. It becomes harder and harder to see what those things are. It requires a time of reflection—a break—to remember, recall, and even revise the things I’ve learned in the past to be true. But the life I lead doesn’t allow for that kind of thing easily. Why do I lead that kind of life?

Is this the same struggle Paul went through when he wrote:

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.
Romans 7:7-25