21 So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
Romans 7:21-25
My 90 year old mom recently sent me this video she recorded of the "singspirations" they have every Wednesday night at her Christian retirement condo in Florida
As much as I know this is the greatest thing in her life, my comment to her was, "I hope Heaven isn't like this." How cruel was that. I'm sure she is thinking "I can't wait to go to Beulah land and have a neverending singspiration and I'm thinking, maybe there are different divisions of Heaven where each generation can worship God in their own way because frankly, if Heaven is like this I don't want to go. (Just Kidding, God) I've often thought that if my wife ever wants to get even with me she can have a gospel quartet sing Beulah Land at my funeral since certainly she will outlive me.
That's what I think Paul is getting at here. He is having a struggle between wanting to do what God wants of him as a selfless slave to obedience and what his flesh wants to do in selfishness and he keeps losing. At the conclusion he erupts in a proclamation of praise that finally, when he gets to Heaven, the self will be gone. In other words, when I get to Heaven, I won't care what is being sung because "I" will be gone! Isn't that the best news ever! Bring on the Singspiration or whatever glorifies God because I will be all in for that. "There's Victory in Jesus"...
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