"For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways."
I've been pondering this concept for a long time, and just today I found this verse on this forum. I've always thought that, in my own life, my own mind was at war with itself, which is pretty elaborately(and sometimes confusingly) laid out by Paul. I just wondered how many other's have felt this in their lives, like there was another person inside you, your "spirit" and your "flesh" warring against each other in a very literal sense?
I think sometimes we underestimate the effect our own physical bodies, our own physical environment, and our own personal perceptions have on our mental and spiritual "being". I truly think that is what Jesus as here to show us, what it is like to have our "spiritual" man in control at all times. I think that is the greatest challenge in our christian lives...to separate our bias, our preconceived ideas, our personal views/desires, and our inherited tendencies to stand for the pure truth with no excuse given to our own thinking. We cannot trust ourselves, only Jesus.
Romans 7
14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. 16If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. 17Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. 18For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. 19For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. 20Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. 21I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. 22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: 23But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 25I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
