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I can’t help it. I dwell on my sin and my capability to sin way too much. I think back to all the sinful things I have committed and why I did what I have done all my life and how I continue to do the same things over and over. I dwell so much on my sin I almost become disheartened as to whether or not I am truly saved. Sin is so encompassing, and all-consuming. Even when we think we are not sinning we are sinning. When we think we would never “go down that road” we wake up to find that we just traveled down it. The flesh and its sinful desires are so ingrained in us that it is impossible to overcome it. Actually more than that we can’t even begin to get rid of it. Many who even appear to lead good moral lives are enriched with sin. They are in more danger than the one who appears to be immoral because sin has them deceived into believing they are good when their innermost thoughts and secret actions are cosmically offense to a perfectly sinless God. There seems like no way out of this plight called sin. No escape. It seems that we are forever committed to his affect within our hearts. Even as those who claim faith in Christ we continue to see sin in our heart and through our actions. Sin eats away at the believers assurance. I hate sin for what it does, yet I keep on giving in to it. what is great relief is that God has intervened and provided, by his grace, a power that “awakes” us to the reality of sin call conviction and the ability to overcome it called repentance. There is so much to say about sin and even more to say about this divine power we have to live out our faith through the Holy Spirit but the conversation needs to first begin with never underestimating our sinful nature and move toward constant repentance empowered by the Holy Spirit.

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