Lenten reflection March 24

Have you ever felt disappointed with yourself, doing what you intended not to do? Like, I did it again!
I think all of us, if we are honest with ourselves, will recognize that we are far from perfect and that there is a continuous struggle to do what we consider to be right.
We all have relationships or areas in life where we continually fail to do what we know we should do, and do what we know not to do.
The apostle Paul is writing about a similar experience in today’s scripture.
In verse 21 he says; so I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22For in my inner being I delight in God's law; 23but 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. 24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!

It is one the miracles of Easter: You have victory over sin and death in Jesus. When He died and was raised from the dead, he gave you the possibility for a new life. And with that new life He gave you the power to overcome the daily struggle with your own weakness.

Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!
When you ask Jesus in to your life, He gives you the hope of eternal life, but He also has given you the hope and strength of coping with the daily challenges of your own limitations and shortcomings. He even promises to forgive and restore you when you fail!

So enter into this season of Easter with joy!

Pastor Terje
Gardermoen Kristne Fellesskap


Romans 7:13-25
13Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! But in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
14We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[a] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19For 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. 20Now 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.
21So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22For in my inner being I delight in God's law; 23but 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. 24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25Thanks 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.


John 6:16-27
Psalms 94 - 99*
Jeremiah 17:19-27