“We know that the law is spiritual, but I am not spiritual since sin rules me as if I were its slave. I do not understand the things I do. I do not do what I want to do, and I do the things I hate.” (Romans 7:14-15 NCV)

Life can be a struggle, and my life has been no different. I continually do the same foolish things I don’t want to do. The problem is, I repeat my mistakes and I never learn. The Bible verse talks about being a ‘slave’ to sin. That is the problem that I and every other person in this world continually face.

There was this youth pastor I got to know when I started attending a big non-denominational church. One of the things he taught us was that we needed to deal with our ‘fatal flaws’. In my mid-thirties, I had my career stripped away from me. One of the things that came out of my career loss was I realized I needed to deal with those flaws. Like it says in the verse, “I do the things I hate.” I do what I do not what to do. I do not want to sin, but I sin anyway. I wonder sometimes, how can the Lord forgive me for doing the same foolish things?  When I commit the same foolish acts, I feel like I am continually failing Jesus. The good news is he died for me. His blood covered my fatal flaws.