Today, I am reading and commenting on  Romans 4-7.

I am not exactly sure what I want to write about today’s passage, but something Paul wrote in chapter 7 resonates with me: “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.”  This resonates with me because I often find myself in exactly that situation. He goes on to say that if he does what he does not want to do, it is not he who does it.  Instead it is the sin living within him which is doing it.  Yet, earlier in the passage Paul wrote that the sin which lived within us was put to death when we were baptized into Christ. Which leads me to understand where I want to go with today’s blog.

Paul tells us that we have a choice to make.  We can serve either sin, or righteousness, but we will serve one or the other.  If we do not male ourselves slaves to righteousness, sin will make itself our master.  This means that when we find ourselves struggling with sin we should seek out acts of righteousness with which to fill our time.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.