"19For 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. 20Now 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. 

 21So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22For in my inner being I delight in God's law; 23but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. 24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! 
      So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin."

When we are born again God comes to live in our heart through His son Jesus. Our new life with Him is a life of obedience to Him and a life of transformation that will lead us to meet Him on that final day made perfectly whole without sin.

While we live on this planet called earth we contend with an evil presence of satin who tempts us to do the evil we do not want to do. Satin wages war against us each moment of each day to continue to trap us into wandering into his evil ways and to forsake the life God gave us through Jesus.

Some days this can become overwhelming when evil thoughts come into our minds or we begin to ignore those who are less well off or become filled with pride of what we have. We must realize that we have wandered away from His presence and behave no differently than the children of Israel repeatedly wandering away from God's presence and being overrun by the enemy of the land.

With the children of Israel God repeatedly brought them back to Him. God today will always bring us back to him when we realize our wandering and cry out to him to help us. This is called God's infinite love, grace and mercy.

When the bottom falls out of your relationship with Christ do not be afraid to come once again before our loving God and allow Him to heal and restore your relationship with him. He is faithful and true even though we are not. He has promised not to abandon us. Jesus Christ our Lord will rescue us.

There will come a day when we we be made perfectly whole and we do not have to worry anymore about this painful wandering away. Blessed be the name of the Lord, blessed be his glorious name.
 
 

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