I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do...As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For 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. Now 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. So I find this law at work: when I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my intervene I delight in God's law; but 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. What a wretched man am I! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God-through Jesus Christ our Lord! (Romans 7:15, 17-25)
Jesus my Savior,
Rescue me from my wretched state.
Rescue me from this destructive pattern of sin.
Rescue me from the evil that surrounds me.
Rescue me from the things I hate.
Jesus my Lord,
Purify me from the sin of my past.
Convict me of the sin in my life.
Reveal the sin that lays before me.
Amen. Let it be.
