Stop the car.

"We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 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. 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."

Romans 7:14-20

What's up with being addicted to...

Drugs
Alcohol
Food
Television
Video Games
Pornography
Smoking


What's up with being continuously/compulsively...

Deceptive
Greedy
Lazy
Prideful
Slanderous
Faithless
Ingenuous


For my own life I could pick out several things from both lists that I have a difficult time with. I am resolved that addiction to all the aforementioned is wrong. I am resolved that though I am saved under God's grace through the Christ's sacrifice, it's dangerous to unrepentantly dabble in the treacherous waters of sin.

Why is it so hard to break a habit? The scriptures tell us it's our sinful nature. What is nature? It's what's inherant. We're set up to do these things from birth.

I'm not a perfect person. It seems lately I can't go a week without screwing up and hitting the ground HARD. Where are my convictions? Where is my repantance? Where is my resolve?

Where's the hope? In God and his power.

Thankfully, turning this around isn't dependant on my strength.


I want to stop, but I cant. I want to start, but I cant.


God Can.