struggleing with sin

In this life I must choose wheather to go doing Gods will or to follow my flesh.  Sin is a terrible thing and when started the chain will contine more and more sins will occur.  How am I to break this cycle?  How am I to overcome the torture of the two spirits within me?  First I begin with the consequences.  I know if I do right there are blessings and wrong consequences.

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.  For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. Galations 6:7-8

My body is being destroyed because of my sin nature, however; through living in Christ I can have eternal rewards. And life will be everlasting with Him. Then I find out what does it take to do things which are in the Spirit. The Bible says it will be tough.

Therfore since Christ has suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same purpose because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin. 1Peter 4:1

Sometimes it is physically painful to stop from doing the sins that are desired in the flesh.  In many of the things the flesh, world, and Satan offer are pleasing to the eye or to the touch.  They are desired by the flesh because they are desirable.  However, if I am to serve the risen Savior I must suffer in these things.  But when I do suffer it says I shall have "...ceased from sin."

If it is a struggle then who can help me with these desires that I might strive to stop sinning?  Who can give me the strength to do so?  I must live by the Spirit of God.  I must allow Him to direct my path and my thoughts.  I must make a choice not to push back the direction of the Spirt.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not cary out the desire of the flesh. Galatians 5:16

I must note that it says desire not desires, because there is one thing that my flesh wants.  It is to sin against the almighty Creator.  Sin is born in me and can only be defeated by the power of the risen Savior.  Therefor if sin is born in me the only way for me to stop sin is to follow a Spirit that is not of me, the Spirit which God gives all of His children.  The Comforter Holy Spirit.

I write this with ease, but to live these principles are difficult, however; that does not give me the reason to sin.  If I have the directions to fix a machine that I have broken but do not use them because they are difficult and continue to handle the machine in its current state and I get injured.  Then the manufacturer is not at fault I am because a plan to make the machine perfect again was in place. I was just to lazy to do it.