Genesis 25:22 English Standard Version (ESV) The children struggled together within her, and she said, “If it is thus, why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the Lord.
This is Rebekah, Isaac’s wife. She is carrying twins and the two boys are fighting with one another. Here is an analogy which is befitting of seeking the Lord for understanding. This is how the Lord answered her.
Genesis 25:23 English Standard Version (ESV) And the Lord said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the older shall serve the younger.”
When we read this answer we might see our own inner turmoil, the old man/woman verses the new creation in Christ. The new creation is stronger but the older wrestles within us trying to regain control that it had before we surrendered to Christ.
Romans 7:23 English Standard Version (ESV) but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
When that happens we should remember the lesson from Rebekah’s life and inquire from the Lord.
Romans 7:24-25a English Standard Version
24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!
Ask the Lord about our turmoil and listen very intently to His answer.
The Hebrew word for turmoil is hâmâh, haw-maw’; a primitive root; to make a loud sound (like English ‘hum’); by implication, to be in great commotion or tumult, to rage, war, moan, clamor:—clamorous, concourse, cry aloud, be disquieted, loud, mourn, be moved, make a noise, rage, roar, sound, be troubled, make in tumult, tumultuous, be in an uproar.
The reason there are so many uses is to cover all of us in one way or another.