Live and learn

I'm learning that sometimes even the best of things can go terribly wrong if we are not careful. What was once so life-giving transpired into something so life-sucking. I hate that! I hate that something so encouraging and wonderful was replaced by something so debilitating and sinful. I repent! Forgive me Lord for I gave Satan an inch and he took a mile. I allowed him to deceive me into thinking to rely on my feelings instead of my reason. I knew better! I so knew better! Paul says it best in Romans 7:
14We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

Well, change is here. All the powers of darkness must be trembling!