Who Will Rescue Me?

For I know that good itself does not dwell 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 I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! (Romans 7:18,19,24,25)

Compassionate Father,

I thank you that your word meets us in the real world. We all feel the way Paul felt as he expressed his sentiment. These children will feel this way as they try to follow you. They will want to live right, but will find themselves doing things they know are not right and they will be kicking themselves over it. But these verses tell us the only solution - you must deliver us. And you must deliver us through Jesus.  Deliver these children through you Son! Help them to know that their struggle with sin is every person's struggle. Help them to know that their struggle with sin does not mean you don't love them, to the contrary, you stand ready to deliver them. O Lord, deliver them when they cry out to you in their struggles.

Amen