We are complex. I don’t feel like a slave to righteousness. I feel that I choose it daily and choose the way to exercise it. You are not of the robot persuasion, I hope.
The natural man is blind and deaf. He possesses a heart of stone and his mind is filled with superstition and rebellion.
The spiritual man who has been reborn by the Holy Spirit has been given new ears and new eyes and a heart of flesh and his mind has been renewed to understand God's word, to enable him to obey, repent and believe.
If that makes me a "robot," then all I can say is "Thank you, dear Lord. Thank you."
"“Our righteousness is in Him, and our hope depends, not upon the exercise of grace in us, but upon the fullness of grace and love in Him, and upon His obedience unto death” -- John Newton, pastor and author of "Amazing Grace."