None of us need reminding from others that we are imperfect.
We do a real good job of proving it to ourselves over and over again.
One of us struggles with cursing.
One of us struggles with greed.
Another struggles with porn.
And yet another keeps falling into the cesspool of gossiping.
The list goes on for life after life after life.
Your life.
My life.
Many Christians don’t like this roller coaster of sin and forgiveness, sin and forgiveness, sin and forgiveness.
But it’s that path we’re on until we’re walking the streets of gold.
You’d think that after we’ve been forgiven countless times for the same sin we seem bungee-strapped to, we’d reach the point of simply stopping that particular behavior.
But we fail again.
And again.
Against the backdrop of this pathetic pattern, we can find hope from the words of the Apostle Paul.
He knew exactly what you and I face with our “stumbling block” sins with which Satan so easily entangles us.
Read carefully his words recorded in Romans 7:21-25 —
“I have discovered this principle of life—that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. I love God’s law with all my heart. But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death? Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Paul struggled with recurring sin.
We struggle with recurring sin.
Paul escaped the sentence of eternal death resulting from that sin. He did so by accepting Christ as Savior.
Please escape the same penalty. Please make sure you’ve accepted Christ as Savior.
You’ll still fall. But you’ll have the peace of knowing that that day is coming when you’ll fall no more because you’ve been lifted up forever.
As always, I love you
Martin
