Morning Devotional 082925 God Knows

Liz’s Morning Devotional: Scripture selected from Upper Room

August 29, 2025

Romans 7:14-25

14 We know that the Law is spiritual, but I’m made of flesh and blood, and I’m sold as a slave to sin. 15 I don’t know what I’m doing, because I don’t do what I want to do. Instead, I do the thing that I hate. 16 But if I’m doing the thing that I don’t want to do, I’m agreeing that the Law is right. 17 But now I’m not the one doing it anymore. Instead, it’s sin that lives in me. 18 I know that good doesn’t live in me—that is, in my body. The desire to do good is inside of me, but I can’t do it. 19 I don’t do the good that I want to do, but I do the evil that I don’t want to do. 20 But if I do the very thing that I don’t want to do, then I’m not the one doing it anymore. Instead, it is sin that lives in me that is doing it. 21 So I find that, as a rule, when I want to do what is good, evil is right there with me. 22 I gladly agree with the Law on the inside, 23 but I see a different law at work in my body. It wages a war against the law of my mind and takes me prisoner with the law of sin that is in my body. 24 I’m a miserable human being. Who will deliver me from this dead corpse? 25 Thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then I’m a slave to God’s Law in my mind, but I’m a slave to sin’s law in my body.

Good Morning! Give thanks with a grateful heart! 

Most of us want to do what is right, but we are challenged by the sinfulness that fills us. By God’s grace, we are given the Holy Spirit to help direct our actions. Without God, doing good is not possible, but with God, everything is possible. 

One of our biggest challenges is to let God, from whom all good things come, be in charge. When we struggle, we are quick to release control, but as soon as we feel stable, we try to take back the reins. Before we know it, we are up to our ears in worry and doubt. 

It’s been said before, but it’s worth repeating. Let go and let God! God is my strength and my salvation. Through Christ, I have been reborn and redeemed through the Spirit. Praise be to God!

Loving Lord, you bless us abundantly! We can be stubborn, and we believe that we know what’s best. Thank you for stepping in when we fall apart. Help us let go of those things that are yours to do. Thank you. We love you, Lord! In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen

Thought for the day: All things are possible for those who believe. 

God knows everything! Pastor Liz