In Romans 7, Paul pulls back the curtain on the human heart. He shows us that the problem isn’t that God’s law is flawed — the problem is that we are. He says that the law reveals what is right, but it cannot give us the power to do it. Paul’s honest confession — wanting to do good but failing — reminds us that the struggle with sin is real, even for mature believers. 

Yet the chapter doesn’t end in despair. It ends in deliverance.  Our struggle does not mean failure—it means we need a Savior: 

Key Verse: Romans 7:24–25a says, “What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!”

Our frustration with our own weakness is not the end of the story — it is the doorway to dependence on Christ. When we finally admit, “I cannot,” we are ready to discover that He can. The Power of the Gospel and that true freedom comes not from trying harder, but from depending fully on Jesus, who rescues us when we cannot rescue ourselves. 

May we all press into the power of that Gospel truth.