Lord Jesus,
We all struggle with doing things that do not bring you Glory and Honor. Forgive us Father, when we fail you. Forgive us when we stray. Lord, accept our repentence and give us the strength and endurance to once again return to you. Guide us on the path of righteousness and have mercy on us.
Even Paul struggled with this issue.
Romans 7:15-25 NIV selected passages
"I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. ... As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives 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 what I do is not the good I want to do; no, 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: When 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 the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God - through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.
