At War with Our Sin

We can all easily relate to Paul in this section of Romans. We all have some kind of sin that we just can't beat. We all desire to present ourselves to the world and to God as Dr. Jekyll, but we continually do the deeds of Mr. Hyde. So how do we respond? We can despair at our inability to correct our behavior. We can resign ourselves to losing to sin and sin all the more. We can convince ourselves that if we try a little harder, we can still win on our own. Or...we can accept that we cannot win our war against sin-that we are wretched-but that Christ has won it already and we hope in His grace.