Meditations on Romans 6-7

Romans 6:12-15
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!

Our calling is to do what God wants us to do. We are without excuse to follow our own desires. If we thought on truth enough, such as the consequences for sin, then we would not be so inclined to follow through with it. We need also to conscientiously and continually contemplate the character of God, in particular his holiness and goodness.

Living under the weight of sin is kind of like living in denial. Sin is not our master. Christ is our master. Desiring to please self will produce only what it produced before, yet how much stronger is the insult now to God considering that through Him we have the grace we need to flee from sin? How would I feel if I saved someone from a blackmailing trade at the expense of my only child's life and then they still dabbled with it?

Why would we still purposefully serve something that leads to disappointment, regret, discouragement, depression, divorce, discontent, etc? Our actions show who we love more, God or self.

Consider briefly the following passage:
So, since we're out from under the old tyranny, does that mean we can live any old way we want? Since we're free in the freedom of God, can we do anything that comes to mind? Hardly. You know well enough from your own experience that there are some acts of so-called freedom that destroy freedom. Offer yourselves to sin, for instance, and it's your last free act. But offer yourselves to the ways of God and the freedom never quits. All your lives you've let sin tell you what to do. But thank God you've started listening to a new master, one whose commands set you free to live openly in his freedom!
19I'm using this freedom language because it's easy to picture. You can readily recall, can't you, how at one time the more you did just what you felt like doing—not caring about others, not caring about God—the worse your life became and the less freedom you had? And how much different is it now as you live in God's freedom, your lives healed and expansive in holiness?
20-21As long as you did what you felt like doing, ignoring God, you didn't have to bother with right thinking or right living, or right anything for that matter. But do you call that a free life? What did you get out of it? Nothing you're proud of now. Where did it get you? A dead end. (Romans 6:15-21, The Message)
Why serve sin? May we ask for the armor of God (Eph 6) and may we not adhere to the voice of sin. We need divine help!
We truly are, as some have said, our own worst enemy.