So, I am one of those people who messes up on a daily, sometimes hourly, basis. It may be sticking my foot in my mouth or not paying attention and knocking over a bottle of soda on a freshly clean floor. I am a walking disaster; I'm walking in sin, if you may. No one understands this better than the Apostle Paul when he said in Romans 7:15-20 New International Version (NIV)
“15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[a] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.”
Now, while this is not a coverall for all sin, it does remind us that EVERYONE IS A SINNER! We must come to the cross DAILY seeking forgiveness. I can only be forgiven because I am washed in Jesus’ blood. Sometimes I deeply hurt people when I sin, but I have to trust that God will loosen those people’s hearts towards me so that they are able to forgive me too.
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