“Do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.”
~Romans 6:13~

I have a hard time wrapping my mind around this book, but yesterday I read Romans 6 and today Romans 7. What’s hard for me to understand is this division of persons. We have this flesh that has been crucified and with that it’s passions and desires (Galatians 5:24). We have died with Christ and therefore been set free from sin.

And at the same time there is still this war being waged inside the Christian. I’d say war is too extreme and strong of word but that is the word I am seeing. The desire to do good is there, but in the flesh, not the ability. In the flesh lies the desire for evil, but that part is not to reign. So is the flesh, is the sin in me dead or alive?

I think they are dead, for the sinful way has died with Christ. But just as death, though conquered, still remains here on earth, still the death that’s part of me. In Christ, however, now a new man lives in me, and in that body the hope (the promise) of a world that is free from sin. Wherever the death is, in Christ, so too is the life.