Why can't I do it?

Good Morning! Rom 7:19 For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do-this I keep on doing! Is there something in your life that you know you shouldn't be doing. But you just can't help yourself, you do it anyway? I know for me there are a couple of things. Maybe it might be as small as eating Chocolate or eating or drinking something you shouldn't. Or maybe it is something big like watching porn or doing drugs or smoking! But the point I'm trying to make, it is something you know is not right and you shouldn't be doing it. But you do! If you read Chap 7 of Roms (14-25) You will see where Paul is telling us WHY! It is because there is a power at work in us that we just cannot control. That power is our Sinful Nature. And I mean to tell you as much as I fight my sinful nature, on some things I just never win. And sometimes I beat myself up. Why? Why can I not control this thing? I remember for yrs when I was struggling with my addiction problems saying to myself WHY? Why can't I just stop? It was because my sinful nature didn't want me to. But then I found the power of Christ to help me overcome the sinful nature. But today I want to share something that has helped me. In Vs 24 Paul says, What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Now I'm not giving you an excuse not to fight this sinful nature we have. But I am giving you an excuse not to beat yourself up over some things that you may not be able to control in your life right now. This walk down the road of good and evil is a rough one, but one thing I know, and you should to. Is our Lord is there with us all the time. He is either there giving us the strength to fight this nature, or He is there giving us forgiveness when we fall short. But either way he is there. So today if you have something in your life that you just don't want to do, but you do it anyway. Ask Jesus to help! To give you the power to defeat this sin that keeps popping up its head, or to give you forgiveness when you are weak. Remember we are all weak at some point, and we all fall short at some point. Thank God he gave us JESUS!
HABD!