Path of presence - Breaking free

BREAKING FREE

Romans 7:18 For now I fully realize that within that dwelling place of my imperfect humanity there is nothing of any lasting virtue at all. My true self intends to act with the purest of motive and intention, but when it comes to living it out, the capacity just isn’t there.

19 For the good that I keep telling myself I am going to do I simply do not do, but the wrong things I have no intention of doing I just keep on allowing to happen.

20 Now if I just keep on doing what my true self admits as being wrong, then it can’t be the real me that’s doing that but some basically inferior disposition that I was born with.

21 So I have discovered a hard and fast predetermined principle, that whenever I decide to do something good, this basically inferior creature demands its equal voting rights. 

22 For I feel wonderful in my deepest innermost self about doing good and virtuous things that please God, 

23 But then I see another agenda at work in my attitudes that outsmarts the straightforward way I want to think and it begins to approve improper behavior.

24 What warped and distorted creatures we mortal beings are! Who can rescue us from this deadly impasse of disorder?

25 I thank God that Jesus Christ has become the rescuer and the rectifier of our human predicament by joining our innermost self to his innermost self. So now I can know I am pleasing and delighting God in my spiritual mind and heart while the other old mindset still tries to make its own arrangements.

CHAPTER 8

1. So there is a ‘not guilty for being a flawed human’ verdict upon every human being who knows what Jesus Christ has done for humanity and who takes this on as the way to live life.

2. Because the Spirit principle of sharing life together with Jesus in his divine existence sets me free from being trapped in the cycle of sin and its deathly consequences.

3. The law could not achieve this result because of what our limited humanity could achieve. But God sent his own son who lived with Him perfectly within this limited capacity of humanity, breaking for all time the hold that this death-lock had always held upon mankind.

4. So that the right living that the law commanded could now flow freely from us as well who live a shared life together with Jesus in his divinity instead of a life isolated by its own limited human condition