The First Step Down the Path of Disobedience

As a Christian, I want to obey God. I want to live life the way He designed me to, and I want the closeness of relationship with God that comes when I am walking in obedience to God. My greatest desire is to do what He wants me to do, act how He wants me to act, and say what He wants me to say.

But desiring and doing are often two very different things. As Romans 7 puts it,

 

“I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward m...