Breaking Free.

21 So I have learned this rule: When I want to do good, evil is there with me. 22 In my mind I am happy with God’s law. 23 But I see another law working in my body. That law makes war against the law that my mind accepts. That other law working in my body is the law of sin, and that law makes me its prisoner. 24 What a miserable person I am! Who will save me from this body that brings me death? 25 I thank God for his salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord! So in my mind I am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful self I am a slave to the law of sin.
Romans 7:21‭-‬25

Anybody can testify how difficult it is to break free from some undesirable habit.The process can be so hard that it can actually cause some trauma if not handled properly.It is sad that a lot of people have struggled to deal with certain habits up to a point where they just gave up, embraced them and learnt to live with them even though they knew how slowly those toxic habits were destroying them.

I know of a christian girl who struggled all her teenage life trying to break free from mustarbation.She would promise herself not to do it because she always felt bad about herself each time she masturbated and she would feel so guilty that it would be difficult for her to pray.She desperately wanted to be set free because she knew in her mind that mustarbation was not just a bad habit but a sin which separated her from God.However, she always seemed to fall each and everytime.She reached a point where she would even watch porn just to make sure that she mustarbated and sometimes she would read dirty romance novels just to satisfy her bad habit.Ofcourse she always felt sad afterwards and would beat her chest up for falling over and over again.What made it more difficult was that she had noone to talk to about that issue because she felt embarrassed to talk about it.Believe me, she lived a miserable teenage life whilst nursing her secret toxic habit and believe me when I confess that the girl i am writing about was me.Yes you read that right.

Are you nurturing a bad habit?Have you been so much trapped by sin lately that it’s been difficult to breakfree?Has your body been a prisoner of sin all this while?
I don’t know what situation you are facing right now and I have no idea how you ended up there but what I am certain about is that you can break free.Yes you can because there is somebody who can deal with that which you have been struggling to dreal with all this time.He can come through for you and set you free.He has done it for others before and there is nothing that is too hard for Him.

Maybe you always find yourself in a dilemma whether to do right or wrong.In your mind you know that you must choose right but your body is such a slave of sin that it wants you to do wrong and because you are human you end up pleasing your body?
Maybe you are so tied to your past that you are struggling to let go.
They hurt you so much that you find it difficult to make the choice to forgive even though deep down you know it’s the right thing to do.
We all long for freedom be it from past hurts, acrimony, anger, toxic habits or addictions.
At times we just imagine how perfect and lovely life would be if and only if we were set free.
If you are one such person reading this today, I want you to know that this freedom I am writing about cannot only be longed for because it truly exists and can be found in God through Jesu.s Christ who came to set the captives free (Isaiah 61:1)

©️ Jesse T Gambanga