16
Apr
2014
0

Are you breaking bad?

I Am the One Who Knocks, sin, breaking bad, one republic, accept, sin, trust, jesus I wondered about the name of a very popular TV show called “Breaking Bad”.  Based on the name, you could interpret it in so many ways.  I started watching it with the hopes that it would show some people breaking free from being bad.  The show was not this at all.  In fact, I think it was someone breaking the mold on being bad to worse than bad.

The interesting thing in life is that we seem to seek being bad.  I know there is also a very popular song right now that states the following:

“Counting Stars” by One Republic:

I feel something so right

By doing the wrong thing

And I feel something so wrong

By doing the right thing

I couldn’t lie, couldn’t lie, couldn’t lie

Everything that kills me makes me feel alive

 

No matter how hard you try, it seems that we seek to do wrong; and I believe, most of us feel that it is right.  How do we break this cycle or should we?

Paul puts it so clear when he states:

14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[a] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

21 So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!

So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.  Romans 7:14-25 (NIV)

Are you a slave to sin that is confirmed in God’s law? (Exodus 20:1-17)  Are you willing to admit it?  Are you willing to thank God that He will deliver you when you accept Jesus Christ as Lord?  If a person, Paul, that has written a lot of the New Testament hates to do what he does not want to do but does it anyway, have you realized you do to?

I pray that God helps you and I break the chains of sin and live a life in Him!

Do You Believe?
QuestionsShareEmail, Facebook

image: Sean Davis

You may also like

Can you celebrate the best worst thing you have gone through? Yes!
The Cups
Are you home yet?
What more does God need to do?

Leave a Reply

%d bloggers like this: