I Know What My Chest Keeps Doing - Raw Arena Rock Confession | Romans 7

✨ There is a war happening inside you that you did not start and cannot win on your own. You know what is right, you want what is right, and somehow you still end up doing the thing you hate most, lying there afterward wondering what is wrong with you. Paul felt every bit of that, and his answer was not a strategy or a resolution, it was a name: Jesus Christ our Lord. 🎧 Anguished. Raw. Driving. Cathartic. Grateful. Perfect for late night moments of shame and honesty, breaking cycles of repeated failure, finding gratitude on the other side of confession. ──────────────────────────────────────── 📖 Scripture Inspiration: Romans 7 (NIV) "1 Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives? 2 For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband. 3 So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man. 4 Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God. 5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in... (Read the full passage at BibleGateway.com)" ──────────────────────────────────────── 🎶 Lyrics: [Intro - driving drum fill into power chord, cold open] [Verse 1] I laid the good thing down again The same place I swore I never would Two hands pulling from inside my chest I love the light and run from it I should I know the law, I read it every morning Holy, righteous, good, it does not lie But it holds up a mirror in the doorway And all it does is show me what's inside [Pre-Chorus] I am not making excuses for the wreck I have become I am just telling you the war does not stop when you know you should have won [Chorus] What a wretched man, what a wretched man But I am standing in the wreckage reaching up Not by trying harder, not by my own hands Somebody pulled me out, somebody pulled me up Thank God, thank God through Jesus Christ my Lord I was rowing against the flood and He reached for the oar What a wretched man, but I am not that man anymore Thank God, thank God through Jesus Christ my Lord [Verse 2] I woke up in the middle of the night again The same shame sitting heavy on my chest Like a prisoner who already holds the key But wakes up every morning reaching for the bars instead Paul wrote this down two thousand years before me So I know I am not the only one who fell The thing I want I do not do, the thing I hate That is the one I know too well [Pre-Chorus] I am not making excuses for the wreck I have become I am just telling you the war does not stop when you know you should have won [Chorus] What a wretched man, what a wretched man But I am standing in the wreckage reaching up Not by trying harder, not by my own hands Somebody pulled me out, somebody pulled me up Thank God, thank God through Jesus Christ my Lord I was rowing against the flood and He reached for the oar What a wretched man, but I am not that man anymore Thank God, thank God through Jesus Christ my Lord [Bridge] I have been given a grave marker with my name on it And out of that grave green things are growing still I died to what once bound me, I am joined to something living Not the law I loved but could not keep, a risen hand that will So I am standing, I am standing, I am standing in this Not because I earned it, not because I fixed it Because He is [Final Chorus] What a wretched man, what a wretched man But I am standing in the wreckage reaching up Not by trying harder, not by my own hands Somebody pulled me out, somebody pulled me up Thank God, thank God through Jesus Christ my Lord I was rowing against the flood and He reached for the oar What a wretched man, but I am not that man anymore Thank God, thank God through Jesus Christ my Lord [Outro] Thank God, thank God Through Jesus Christ my Lord Thank God, thank God He pulled me from the war Thank God, thank God I did not fight my way free He is the answer at the end of verse twenty-three ──────────────────────────────────────── 📌 Stay Connected: ⚡ Comment "WHAT A WRETCHED MAN I AM" if you have ever loved God and still watched yourself do the exact thing you promised you would not do again 🔥 Send this to someone who needs to know they are not the only one fighting this war inside themselves. 🎸 Subscribe for daily scripture-based Christian Rock music. ──────────────────────────────────────── 🏷️ Tags:...