‘For the law of the Spirit of life in Yeshua has made me free from the law of sin and death.’ Romans 8:2
In Romans 7, you can see the apostle Paul’s obvious frustration with himself. With his mind, he serves Yehovah, and he desires to please Him, yet he lives in a body which still craves after sinful things. He feels torn in two as the opposing forces war and rage within him. Then in chapter eight, Paul starts by declaring that there is no more condemnation for anyone who now belongs to Yeshua, because all our debt and sin has already been paid for, so the devil has nothing to hold against us. This does not mean, Paul tells us, that we can do what we want without consequences, because we will be forgiven anyway – that attitude ridicules all that Yeshua went through to buy our freedom from condemnation, guilt, and death. He says instead, ‘Walk in the Ruach, and you shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Ruach, and the Ruach against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you desire of the flesh.’ (Galatians 5:16-18 NKJV). If you walk in line with Yehovah, His Word and His will, your desires will align themselves with His too. And if you do slip or fall, you are not under condemnation; you are still a child of Yehovah, you are still in Him, so get back up and carry on again!