Our Sin Struggle

Good Morning! Jude 24 NLT: And now, all glory to God, who is able to keep you from stumbling, and who will bring you into his glorious presence innocent of sin and with great joy. I don't know about you, but I am a Christian who struggles with sin on a daily basis. I think Paul explains it best in Rom 7:15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. You know there are alot of things in my life I hate to do. And in my mind I know are wrong and I try not to do them, but end up doing them anyway. Now here is my predicament, when these things happen in my life what do I do? Most of the time I get down on myself and feel guilty for 3 or 4 days and really waste time. And don't get me wrong we should feel guilty when we do something wrong. But you see no matter how much we try and think it through, no matter how much willpower we try and use, no matter how Good we try to be, we will never be good enough to get into Heaven! Now that statement may shock you, but its true. Now God did give us a Brain to distinguish between right and wrong. But let me put it to you this way, MY BEST THINKING GOT ME WHERE I AM TODAY! And when I say that, what I am talking about is looking back over my life at all the mistakes I made. But you see TODAY! It is only through the power of Jesus Christ that I do right. And it is only by the Blood of Jesus Christ that this Sin Struggle is dealt with in my life. I can be the best I can be! I can do and think all the right things, but it will never be good enough. Because I can't! That is why I have to depend on Jesus for the strength to pull me through my Sin Struggles. Because me, my brain and my willpower are not enough. But I have some more GOOD NEWS for you today. And this is not an excuse to just go and sin! But when we do, we are covered. 2Corinth 5:21 says, God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. So the point I am trying to make here today! Is we can try all we want to not sin, but without Jesus we fail either way. It is not about what we do, it is about what He did. So today if you are struggling with some sin, remember Jesus is the only one who can give you the strength to quit doing it. But until we can get rid of all sin in our lives (which will never happen) Jesus is the only thing that will help us there also. So don't get down on yourself today because you sin. Praise God that he sent His Son to pay the price for it. Because of our Sin Struggle we will never be good enough, but Jesus says we are! HABD!