THE WAR INSIDE US BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL.
I was listening to a priest lately and he was talking about that passage in Romans "I do not understand my own actions for I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate................................." Romans 7.15. onwards. Paul was talking about the slavery to sin that is within us and which even he had not yet overcome. The priest gave the example of a friend who had been on a retreat, he came back full of fervour and love for the Lord. The next day his friend started to pray, but found his mind wandering to worlds things; but he kept on persevering and trying . At the end of a half hour he stopped and realised that for only about five minutes of that half hour had he been meditating with the Lord. He was so disappointed. Does that happen to you well it certainly happens to me. I can never quite feel I belong to the Lord because of my distractions and when I do good works I do not have the humility to keep it to myself but want to boast about it