What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you?

James 4:1

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.

Romans 7:15

For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.

Romans 7:18

Love's greatest enemy is not hate, and it's not the devil... it's sin.

James 4:4-5

You're cheating on God. If all you want is your own way, flirting with the world every chance you get, you end up enemies of God and His way.

God

Others

Myself

"Sin is worse than the devil since it made the devil what he is. Satan as an existence is God's creature, and this sin never was; its origin and nature are all together apart from God. Sin is even worse than hell, for it is the sting of that dreadful punishment. Anselm used to say that if hell were on one side, and sin on the other, he would rather leap into hell than willingly sin against God." - Charles Spurgeon

Romans 7:24-25

24 Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death? 25 Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord.

Sanctification

Ephesians 4:22-24

22 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

Thoughts

Resources

Relationships

Will this draw me closer to Jesus, or push me further away?