"I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do... For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For 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... For in my inner being I delight in God's law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. What a wretched man am I! Who will rescue me from this body of death?"*

What does Paul conclude about this seemingly unsolvable situation?

"Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus..."*

No condemnation, no room for guilt.

We hear a lot about peace. It's a fruit of the Spirit. Fruit. Not gift. Not for the asking or taking. Fruit grows. You give it the right conditions and it grows without effort or struggle, you give it the wrong conditions and it doesn't. Simple. Peace is a fruit of the Spirit. When I'm lacking peace I go back to the Lord and ask the Holy Spirit to come to me and live in me. The peace grows back as surely as fruit on a tree that's been transplanted from bad ground to good.

God bless

EMPIRE

PS. I'm more than a little convinced reading the above scripture that St Paul had a problem with jacking off the same as the rest of us. He was a man wasn't he? The problems he's describing weren't outward, since all his outward works appear to be good and for the gospel. No, he was struggling with inner conflicts and desires like every other person.
(This means there's a chance he was a BL too of course...)

* Romans 7v15 --> 8v1