Saint Athanasius Lutheran Church

Today, in the reading from Romans, Saint Paul talks about being trapped. But this is a far more serious kind of trapped than the others, bad as they may be. He is trapped in his sin. The struggle for Paul is not between his mind and his body, but between his Old Man and his New Man. It is between sinner and saint. But then Paul saw the light -- literally! Once Paul saw the light, he realized that to simply do better and try harder doesn't work.