Romans 7:24-25 (The Message)

I’ve tried everything and nothing helps. I’m at the end of my rope. Is there no one who can do anything for me? Isn’t that the real question?The answer, thank God, is that Jesus Christ can and does. He acted to set things right in this life of contradictions where I want to serve God with all my heart and mind, but am pulled by the influence of sin to do something totally different.

How many times in life we try to overcome sin on our own? We realise we are falling back into the well of sin, but starting to turn back to those old habits, that through grace we were saved from.

I you are anything like me, you tend to try and get yourself, out of your own power, to turn away from those old sins.

Reading this passage this morning, I just realised again what amazing thing Jesus did for us on the cross. We have been saved from all sin, through His blood on the cross, and we need to say thank you a lot more than we do. And we also need to turn to Him first, when we realise that the temptations are there and we need to show resolve not to do it.