Romans

I read all of Romans today. There was a passage in Romans that really stuck out to me and it probably true for most people. I know that it is a well known passage but it never hit me like it did today when i read it

We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. 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. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 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 I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.

As i read this i thought to myself how true it was. I just emailed a friend the other day and pretty much told her this exact same thing. I am so tired of sinning and yet i keep on sinning. I want to do good but i don't. It is very frustrating to me and angers me at time. I hurt people that i care about because of my own selfish desires. I hurt myself because of my own selfish desires. I just don't get it but i realize how powerful sin is and it isn't something to play around with. I also realized just how strong we have to be to beat sin. I won't give up though because I know who lives in me and who loves me and one day i will do what i was and not what i want.