Scripture
Romans 7:22-23 NLT
I love God’s law with all my heart. But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me.
Consider
Loving God is not the same as loving God’s law. Like children in the care of a parent we love and trust, we may still resist the rules our parent assigns, even when we believe those rules are meant to protect and help us. God gave us his law not to make us miserable but to expose the sin in our lives that makes us miserable. Without the law, Paul says, we would not know that we sin.