“St. Paul knows that we live before an unknown future, and he’s casting
around for what he can trust, who he can trust to give him directions. ‘Who
can save me from this dead body?’ he asks. You could say that Romans 7 is
about a man struggling with the future as he finds himself doing what he
doesn’t what to do. He longs for a reconciliation in himself that is half
glimpsed, half heard.“