Romans 7:15-25 The Strife Of Our Two Natures

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.  As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.  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. For I do not do the good I want to do, but 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: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me.  For in my inner being I delight in God’s law;  but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me.  What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?  Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.

This is spiritual warfare described.  The unregenerate man does not have that struggle, because he obeys
Satan's laws of the flesh.  But to those who know Christ Jesus, they have an inner man, the spiritual side of the saved man who desires to yield to Jesus and not obey the flesh.  The longer one is a Christian, the easier it is to obey Christ, by the power of the Spirit, and turn down the temptations of the flesh.

Daily Prayer:  Lord, I know salvation is not through my work, but by trusting in Your work.  Nevertheless, let me walk by the Spirit in the power of Your victory so that my life troubles will be minimized by living in wisdom and faith in You.  In Jesus name I pray Amen.